There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.
The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.