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In reply to the discussion: Oh my god cant BELIEVE what I just heard Cenk Uyger just say [View all]pnwmom
(110,219 posts)the donations of thousands of individuals who work there, including the "lowest assistants" and everyone else -- even the ones who donated to Bernie.
I do NOT agree that less than half of a Dems donations should come from the "corporate sector." Do you even know what a corporation is? Do you know that a 1 man firm can be a corporation?
Where do you think most labor workers work? AT CORPORATIONS. Where do you think most small-donation donors work? AT CORPORATIONS. Where do most AMERICANS work? AT CORPORATIONS.
More than half of US workers work for a corporation larger than 500 employees; when you add in all the other workers who work for smaller corporations, a huge majority do. So refusing to take any more donations from individuals -- beyond your arbitrary 50% -- because they work for corporations just doesn't make sense.
(Maybe your OP is based on a misunderstanding. Corporations and businesses -- no matter what their size -- aren't allowed to donate to candidates. Only individuals can do so, and all must adhere to the same donation limits as anyone else.)
https://taxfoundation.org/less-one-percent-businesses-employ-half-private-sector-workforce/
On the other hand, while only 0.4 percent of all firms have over 500 employees, this small group of businesses employs 50.6 percent of the nations private sector workforce, with most of those employees working for C corporations.
