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eniwetok

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11. that's where corporate personhood got it's legal start...

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 03:46 PM

Feb 2017

but the bigger problem is there doesn't seem to be any quid pro quo for the gift of free limited liability protection. Patents and copyrights have reasons stated in the Constitution. The corporate form does not... because they're not even mentioned. This was a matter left to the states. The most powerful force in the nation outside of government developed largely by accident... and we really need to make regaining control of the corporate form a high priority... because the GOP is certainly doing everything it can to use it to undermine government.

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How Did We The People Lose Control Over Corporations? [View all] eniwetok Feb 2017 OP

The big shift happened in the "greed is good" 80s. AJT Feb 2017 #1

When they painted Unions as the enemy of the employee SticksnStones Feb 2017 #2

One word: Unions Glitterati Feb 2017 #3

$$$$$ Iggo Feb 2017 #4

$$$$$$ mitch96 Feb 2017 #9

We never had it. alarimer Feb 2017 #5

once corporations were under tight civic control eniwetok Feb 2017 #8

When "the bottom line" became all that mattered Phoenix61 Feb 2017 #6

We let money vote. Orsino Feb 2017 #7

I believe it started here... PoiBoy Feb 2017 #10

that's where corporate personhood got it's legal start... eniwetok Feb 2017 #11

I totally agree... PoiBoy Feb 2017 #14

I should note... I believe it was Thom Hartmann who discovered this... eniwetok Feb 2017 #12

Yes... in the Hightower article that I linked to.. PoiBoy Feb 2017 #15

1. deregulation 2. corporate personhood Blue_Tires Feb 2017 #13

another and a reorder: 1) corporate personhood, 2) greed, 3) deregulation salin Feb 2017 #17

And now the corporate backed wall streeters mitch96 Feb 2017 #18

Because people buy their crap? hunter Feb 2017 #16