Corporations need voting rights in the united states

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Baba, Mar 17, 2010.

  1. Baba

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  2. Subspace

    Subspace comfy in a chair

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    You've gotta be kidding?!

    Can't wait for the vote:

    "We as corps would no longer like to pay employees. Lets install universal slavery from cradle to grave instead."

    Vote count: 101%: YES
    -1%: NO

    Attention people of America, please report to your nearest corporate owner for "work". :doh:
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  3. Dayton Kitchens

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    What would be the big deal?

    Give every corporation in the U.S.A. one vote.

    I wouldn't change a thing.
  4. Yelling Bird

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    Who would decide how the corporation votes? Top management? Majority shareholder(s)? All employees?
  5. Amaris

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    Corporations are made up of people. You would be giving a handful of select people the ability to vote twice.
  6. Dayton Kitchens

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    I was being rather sarcastic as a few thousand votes scattered nationwide would make no big deal one way or the other in most cases.
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    The recent Supreme Court decision has certainly taken us in this direction.
  8. Amaris

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    A few thousand? How many corporations do you think there are, keeping in mind it doesn't take much to become incorporated? I can go from being a sole proprietorship to a corporation, for the most part, inside of a day.
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    They already own the politicians. What more do they need? :unsure:
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    Your soul!
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  11. Muad Dib

    Muad Dib Probably a Dual Deceased Member

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    And that, my friends, is why we need Obamacare. :techman:
  12. Zombie

    Zombie dead and loving it

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    No they didn't.
  13. Zombie

    Zombie dead and loving it

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    no no no :nono:

    You've got to do it right......

    IT'S:

    YOUR SOOOOOOUUUUULLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    [​IMG]
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  14. Quincunx

    Quincunx anti-anti Staff Member Administrator

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    This might work if only corporations were allowed to vote.

    After all, what's good for corporations is good for America, right? :diacanu:
  15. Baba

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    Reagon would support this.
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  16. RickDeckard

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    No, you were being stupid. What's to stop me, or more likely someone very rich, creating a few hundred or more corporations in order to swing a vote in a tight constituency?

    Corporations should have zero rights.
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  17. Dayton Kitchens

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    The law.

    Voter fraud is already illegal.