TahitiNut
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:48 AM
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| 17. Corporate Feudalism - Plantation Economics - Banana Republicanism |
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Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 10:49 AM by TahitiNut
There's absolutely no question about it. Corporations have a "personhood" for which few of the civil liberty limits apply. Corporate "persons" can OWN corporate "persons" - that's slavery. Corporate "persons" have privileges above and beyond The People - in immigration and emigration, in preferential tax treatment, in superior PRIVACY 'rights' and in immortality. Corporate welfare (mandated 'investment' and bailouts) goes not to the neediest but to the most powerful.
If I were Emperor for a day I would, to begin with, outlaw corporations from owning corporations and require ALL public ownership, and all derivative rights of ownership, to be in the name of natural persons. Fuck conglomeration!
Regarding labor laws, to begin with, I would mandate a minimum wage based not only on the location or citizenship of the laborer, but on the 'citizenship' of the payor. American corporations should be required to pay a minimum of $5.15/hour no matter whether the laborer is in West Virgina or in mainland China.
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