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Old 02-28-2010, 07:06 PM   #205 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by HannaH13 View Post
What they should have done is to say: Corporations are people too ... and every registered corporation that pays taxes can have 1 vote. Enron gets 1 vote, Exxon 1 vote, Microsoft 1 vote, Blackwater 1 vote, Fox News 1 vote ...
Wouldn't this just put more undue political power into the hands of those with more assets? I thought it a better idea to keep things more balanced. Wouldn't this be a move toward a corpocracy? You'd basically create a huge group of entities that would have a high voter turnout (because it'd a part of "doing business") that would most definitely vote based solely on business/corporate interests. They'd be easily wooed, in other words. Not only that, but what would stop people from creating several corporations merely to get more votes (among other benefits)?

I think it's a terrible idea.
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