Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agoYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down16
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1external-linkYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agomessage-square79linkfedilink
minus-squarekalkulat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-21 month ago Citizens United Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
minus-squareReverendIrreverence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
I’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them