Mitt Romney- Corporations Are People!

8/11/11

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News & Politics

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• ROmney
• corporations
• republicans
• 2012
• GOP
• primary

[nrdify]

Oh great, another politician who is sucking the dicks of corporations rather than serving the American people. I swear, if Ron Paul is not the GOP nominee, then I am not voting! Or maybe I will vote for Obama, so Ron Paul can run in another 4 years rather than have to wait at least 8.

Ron Paul 2012!

[syntaxed2]

The corporation:

* The dominant institution of modern times.

*Structurally, it is a totalitarian dictatorship.

* Morally, it is a collective devoted to the worship of money where anything and everything can be a product - human, animal and ecosystem.

*Legally, it is considered a persona, one whom readily employs children in 3rd world countries.

*Ethically, it pollutes our waters and claims patents on human genes, all in the interest of license profits.

[kingslice75]

@nrdify Most corporations serve the American people, if not through jobs then through the stocks dividens, and the 401Ks and pensions which invest in them. I like Ron Paul better too but it's too easy to think of corporations as endless piles of money that don't affect anything but their owners.

[kingslice75]

He DOES have a point here. It's so easy to talk about "the evil corporations" but they DO create jobs. If they fail, their stock falls, then all the millions of PEOPLE who are invested in those stocks for their pensions, retirement funds, and 401Ks lose money too. Corporate executives do a lot of shady things. So do people. Corporation-bashing is "in" right now but I dare anyone to live without them. Romney's point is that we can't just spend and tax our way out of recession. He's right.

[Tomiver16]

he is right you know.

[cdoftx]

@nrdify Anyways, like the point in my first post, taxing corporations is nothing more than a hidden tax for people. In the end, its not rich people with yachts paying WalMart's taxes, its middle class and poor people who buy their groceries from that store. There would be no difference in terms of tax income if individuals paid all taxes and corporations paid none. You'd make more money, but you'd pay higher taxes. The only difference would be that people feel like they're paying more taxes.

[cdoftx]

@nrdify In the end, profits from corporations go to people who pay taxes and spend the money. If you have a 401k or any investments you're reaping some of those profits now. In the end, the only way to deal with the deficit and debt is through spending cuts. 40 cents of every dollar the US spends now is borrowed. You could cut every federal program except the military, SS, and Medicare and the budget still wouldn't be balanced. We can't follow California's model and drive business away though.

[nrdify]

@cdoftx What I have an issue with is when is comes to balancing our budget and dealing with the deficit, we don't to turn to corporations making billions of dollars in profits.

[cdoftx]

@nrdify You're right about Ron Paul, but I have 2 questions. 1) WalMart paid $8,000,000,000 in taxes last year, where does WalMart get the money to pay this? 2) Also, right now an employer pays half of a worker's Social Security taxes, what difference does it make to the employer whether they pay all of those taxes or none of them and the employee pays them all with a higher salary? (any way, an employee costs the same for their work)

[AirsoftTim92]

I love that the audience just laughs in his face haha.

[L33thalLee]

Too bad this guy is leading in the primaries while Paul is basically in last place. The powers that be have done a great job and we the people will just bend over and get sodomized while these big corps are getting richer. Paul has my vote but apparently it's pointless. Either the voting system is rigged or there are plenty of ignorant voters that want more of the same of the last four years.

[lordrosemount]

I think there's a lot of wilful misinterpretation going on here. He wasn't trying to claim corporations are in any sense the same thing as people, but just that they are composed of people and what affects them ultimately affects people. His usage was in that sense identical to that in the famous cinematic line, "Soylent Green is people!": that was never intended to mean you could meet a Soylent Green in the street and carry on a conversation with it, but that the product was composed of them.