[LMB] Corporations as People OT: (was: Thor Power Tools, yet again)

[Margaret Dean]

Peter Newman wrote:

> They're in business to make money, they're _supposed_ to
> be greedy. [1]
> 
> They make their decisions based on the tax laws available to
> them. If business taxes were less than they would act
> differently. If all businesses are owned by people, and all
> people are taxed than you just tax the people according to how
> much of the business they own, forget taxing the business.
> There are a lot of different tax policies you could set up
> to do this. I'd get rid of the whole notion of that corporations
> are people first. Corporations ought not to be legally considered
> people. Corporations ought to be legally considered things that
> people own. My car isn't a person it is a thing I own. Why can
> I start a company and have it be 'a person' but my other things
> can't be people? Is creating a corporation like giving birth
> to a child? Can corporations (not employees of corporations)
> think. Why do they get the rights of sentience when they're not
> sentient?