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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 10:02 AM
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152. Sure. Are corporations persons?
If you're going to give a non-sentient entity voting rights, shouldn't every paper dollar have them, too? Oh, wait a minute, isn't that what soft dollars are all about?

I'm still waiting for someone to figure out how to physically jail a corporation and subject it to the same humiliations commonly prescribed for human criminals. I'm thinking iron bars and locks, thick concrete walls, razor wire, rifle toting guards in strategically-placed lookout towers, and of course, bubba and bars of soap.

The closest anyone has come is dissolution. Not much different than saying some tax-paying humans can't vote.
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