nice of him to make Sanders' point about corporate welfare

[callmeslick]

.....and, isn't this the same state that wanted to waste tax dollars drug testing welfare recipients?

https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2 ... blackmail/


the man might be a small minded, hateful bastard, but he's mad enough to spill the beans on how the pols have been spending the money...

[Tunnelcat]

Ooooh, I guess they don't like that business lobbying when it goes against their moral principles. I always wondered when Christian morals would eventually clash with business morals.

[Spidey]

Businesses have morals…who knew.

[Tunnelcat]

Well, you do, don't you Spidey? You aren't a nameless international megacorp who could care less what country they screw over on the road to eternal megawealth.

[Spidey]

People have morals…businesses do not.

I really should give it up…people just don’t get me.

[Tunnelcat]

Not according to SCOTUS. Corporations are considered people and since people have morals, now corporations have morals by extension.

[callmeslick]

People have morals…businesses do not.

I really should give it up…people just don’t get me.

I get you. I may not agree, but get it. Now, if we accept the first sentence above, where do you stand
on Citizens United?

[Ferno]

Not according to SCOTUS. Corporations are considered people and since people have morals, now corporations have morals by extension.

and religious rights according to their latest ruling.

[Spidey]

"where do you stand on Citizens United"

Well first of all, the court never declared corporations to be “people*” if they had, corporations would have to be given the right to vote. What the court ruled was that the first amendment protects “associations of people” as well as individuals, and if it didn’t organizations such as the press, would also lose their first amendment rights.

* As in the context of a single person, with the rights of a single person.

[Ferno]

"where do you stand on Citizens United"

Well first of all, the court never declared corporations to be “people*” if they had, corporations would have to be given the right to vote. What the court ruled was that the first amendment protects “associations of people” as well as individuals, and if it didn’t organizations such as the press, would also lose their first amendment rights.

* As in the context of a single person, with the rights of a single person.

They don't have to. They just litigate the hell out of their representatives.

But for everything else, they are