Forum Post: Amend the Constitution: Separation of Corporations and State
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 4, 2011, 2:17 a.m. EST by SeparationOfCorpandState
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I find these truths to be self evident and agree with your main premise that Corporation have to much control of our government and create a conflict of interest. I suggest that the reverse is also true. The award winning documentary film " Inside Job" sheds light on the financial meltdown and why it happened (Greed). The main point is that Government has no business being involved in Corporations and Corporations have no business being involved in Government. Our government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth (Not a government of corporations, by corporation, for corporations). Just as we found there was no place for Government involvement with Religion and visa versa, we have the 1st Amendment "Separation of Church and State". Therefore we should move for another Amendment of "SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND STATE"! There is no room for one meddling in the other. The governments role is to create laws to protect the people from Greedy Corporations that steal our money and livelihood.
There is nothing wrong with capitalism. The problem is 'crony capitalism' or the oligarchy of banksters, and big corporate monopolies that today run your government through special interest bribes of most of our elected.
The Constitution and its blueprint of checks and balances to prevent this awful state of affairs has been shredded by greed and lust for power.
http://www.constitutionattacked.com
Wallwillie; The separation of Corporations and State does not take away freedoms of speech. This sounds like a Corporate exec. or Politician justifying Money for favors. Speech is speech, Money is money, corporations are corporations, and people are people. This is exactly why there should be Separation of Corporations and Sate!........This make no sense and is to complicated to understand. This opens the door to loopholes and problems. What do corporations need from government anyway? Do corporations get to vote in an election? They are not People......People are the only ones allowed to vote in an election. Corporations do not have the same rigths as people and God Bless America for that. I don't want corporations telling the Government how to govern or run our country any more than I want the government governing or running a corporatiton or business. The less Government the Better!
Corporate Free Speech There needs to be better corporate representation. Money is speech. Every individual, even individual stockholders, "ownership," has a right to free speech. Free speech means no one can force or prevent an individual's speech. Ownership has the right to direct the corporation's speech and political contributions. Majority control of contributions may violate an individual's free speech. Corporate management can speech for the corporation, but ownership needs to authorize that speech. No speech or money spent on political contributions may be made without ownership authorization and such contributions must be taken from the individual's dividends. No dividends means there is no allowance for contributions. Corporate management must poll the ownership to determine the amount and placement of all individual stockholder directed contributions. The assignment of all corporate contributions must be made public so that ownership can verify the correct placement of their contributions. Management can not make contributions on the behalf of nonresponsive ownership and thus can only make contributions for which they have been directly authorized.
Money is speech. Corporations are people, because people get the money. Free speech means people are not forced to pay for someone else's speech. Corporations may not force to pay or deny dividends, to a person who does not approve of money spent on speech. Corporations may only spend money on speech that is taken, by approval, from the people who get the money. Every person who gets money, from the corporation, must approve the money spent on speech, in order to protect the right to free speech. Since the money spent on speech is identifiable with a person then that money is subject to caps associated with that person and must be reported. Also, tax consequences flow, to each person, for tax exempt contributions. If the corporation feels that the cost of polling and reporting the money spent on speech is prohibitive, then the corporation is prohibited from spending on speech. Corporations spend money on product ads and any political placement in a product ad must have unanimous consent of ownership.
Wallwillie; The separation of Corporations and State does not take away freedoms of speech. This sounds like a Corporate exec. or Politician justifying Money for favors. Speech is speech, Money is money, corporations are corporations, and people are people. This is exactly why there should be Separation of Corporations and Sate!........This make no sense and is to complicated to understand. This opens the door to loopholes and problems. What do corporations need from government anyway? Do corporations get to vote in an election? They are not People......People are the only ones allowed to vote in an election. Corporations do not have the same rigths as people and God Bless America for that. I don't want corporations telling the Government how to govern or run our country any more than I want the government governing or running a corporatiton or business. The less Government the Better!