Davriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up11.04Karrow-down16
arrow-up11.04Karrow-down1external-linkYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square77linkfedilink
minus-squarekalkulat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year ago Citizens United Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
minus-squareReverendIrreverence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoI’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
I’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them