Why do Corporations love the Republicans so much?

[FormerRepublican]

I mean really, seriously? The Dems in Congress have completely rolled over and give them whatever they want. So why do they still hate Dems?

Can we compile a list of what kinds of things make big business adore the Republicans?

[Burma Jones]

1. Because the Republicans actually enjoy the company of Corporate types

Whereas, I think most Dems endure the company of Corporate types....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. greed.

nothing more. nothing less. recognition and respect among thieves.

[tocqueville]

3. you don't bite the hand that feeds you n/t

[enid602]

4. taxes.

Because 60% of the Fortune 100 didn't pay ANY taxes last year.

[Sapphocrat]

5. Tax breaks.

There's no guarantee the Dems, once in power, will "roll over" to the corporations. The Repukes, however, always do, because the Repukes stand to make money off the corporations, because they own them, they hold stock in them, they're board directors, and/or they're on the take.

Simple math.

[charlyvi]

6. Deregulation.

No environmental regulations, no location regulations, no monopoly regulations, no outsourcing regulations, more profit.

PS: No health care requirements, no pension funding requirements, no civil rights regulations.

[EVDebs]

7. What's love got to do with it ? DeLay told K-Streeters he wouldn't deal

with any of those lobbyists unless they fed Republicans and didn't deal with Dems. Please read:

Welcome to the Machine
How the GOP disciplined K Street and made Bush supreme.

By Nicholas Confessore (July Aug. 2003)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html

""But there's one confirmation hearing you won't hear much about. It's convened every Tuesday morning by Rick Santorum, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, in the privacy of a Capitol Hill conference room, for a handpicked group of two dozen or so Republican lobbyists. Occasionally, one or two other senators or a representative from the White House will attend. Democrats are not invited, and neither is the press.

The chief purpose of these gatherings is to discuss jobs--specifically, the top one or two positions at the biggest and most important industry trade associations and corporate offices centered around Washington's K Street, a canyon of nondescript office buildings a few blocks north of the White House that is to influence-peddling what Wall Street is to finance. In the past, those people were about as likely to be Democrats as Republicans, a practice that ensured K Street firms would have clout no matter which party was in power. But beginning with the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, and accelerating in 2001, when George W. Bush became president, the GOP has made a determined effort to undermine the bipartisan complexion of K Street. And Santorum's Tuesday meetings are a crucial part of that effort. Every week, the lobbyists present pass around a list of the jobs available and discuss whom to support. Santorum's responsibility is to make sure each one is filled by a loyal Republican--a senator's chief of staff, for instance, or a top White House aide, or another lobbyist whose reliability has been demonstrated. After Santorum settles on a candidate, the lobbyists present make sure it is known whom the Republican leadership favors. "The underlying theme was place Republicans in key positions on K Street. Everybody taking part was a Republican and understood that that was the purpose of what we were doing," says Rod Chandler, a retired congressman and lobbyist who has participated in the Santorum meetings. "It's been a very successful effort.""

This is why Dems need to re-take the House in '06. Patronage, corruption and one-party rule.

Also, Corporations are beginning to reconsider R support

Has 'War' become a leading brand for United States?
How Bush's imperial policies are being linked to economic woes and CEO angst in America
Mark Engler

SF Chronicle, Sunday, December 4, 2005

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2294904&mesg_id=2294946

[applegrove]

8. Because the Repukes want to see corporations unfettered - goes

perfectly with not paying taxes or sharing the burdens of the people in your country. Or sacrificing. Also they, some corporations, hate the public good and have been taught this (MBA Schools) for a generations (your competitors in business are not the enemy - the enemy is workers, consumers, & government who regulate you).

[BrklynLiberal]

9. $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[gulliver]

10. The Republicans _are_ the corporations.

The Republican party is primarily a consortium of business interests focused on managing the politics of the country. It isn't really even that much of a party any more. The Dems could have been selected for purchase by the corporations just as easily as the Republicans were. The corporations just started buying up Republicans and Republicanism bit by bit and pretty soon they owned the whole she-bang.

It is actually kind of ironic that the party that wants to associate itself with old-fashioned honest values has come to represent such intellectual and material dishonesty ... such amazingly brazen corruption. Most of its members aren't even conscious of it's evil. The Republican party has become a composite asshole, selfish and unaware of its own cravenness.

You are wrong about the Dems rolling over being the same as Republicans. That's a false commonplace. The Dems roll over too often, but they do it more out of meekness than anything else. The Democrats stand idly by -- guilty bystanders. The Republicans actually engage in the evil directly. It is very different. If Republicans abandoned their party altogether, the world would be a much better place. If the Dems abandoned their party, we would all be in a world of hurt. Just look at what Bush has done if you want an idea.

[greenisin]

11. Because they support lower taxes for the rich!

Just today the house passed a tax bill to reduce taxes for the rich by further limiting the alternative minimum tax (AMT). The AMT was created to make sure the very wealthy don't dodge their fair share of taxes. Well today the house passed a bill that would weaken this protection. If there was ever proof of how much they hate the common working person, this is it.

[NVMojo]

12. Because Repukes are skilled at masturbating corporations.

[Jacobin]

13. unions, taxes, deregulation, and environmental regulations

Oh, and the government is a GIANT tit for the military industrial complex. Those companies do very well when a war gets started