I agree with you. Corporations/organizations are not people, and should not have the rights that people have. They should not, for example, be allowed to give money to political candidates or parties (the way unions do).
I agree, and I’m not a legal expert, but I don’t want any corporation that may be based in the United States but controlled by foreign shareholders to have any say in our elections, money or otherwise. We have too many of our sons and daughters who have bled and died for this nation to give away our rights. I am really surprised that ANYONE on our board would agree to that!
But the question of whether groups have rights is a Fourteenth Amendment problem and is really irrelevant to a discussion of the First.
The 14th was written for individuals but decades of liberal jurists have read group rights into it, giving us the affirmative action, the ADA, etc. All the mischief done to the Constitution with group rights is a 14th Amendment problem.
But the First Amendment is different. The First is absolute and irreducible. Speech is speech is speech. Any restrictions at all on it, barring felonies like threats of violence, is destructive to it.
Well then the government should stop taxing the crap out of
the 78% small business that you folks keep treating like
we were some global concern.
The congress writes the tax laws and spends us into oblivion
but you think the ones (employers) who will bear the brunt of
their cap and trade and socialized medicine should have no say in the matter.
That's called taxation without representation.
When you come around looking for a job remember why
we (business)are not here anymore. Go find work from a poor person.