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To: Willie Green
Are you suggesting that multinational corporations don't utilize their economic resources to exert influence over Congress and government policies for their own benefit?

Yeah, just like I and millions of other conservatives do through the NRA and the Republican Party? If you have a problem with special interests exerting influence in Washington, D.C., there is a simple solution to that problem. Vastly reduce the amount of power the federal gov't has and shareholders, via the corporations that they have an ownership interest in, won't have to pay protection money to the pols that wield power in Washington.

53 posted on 08/05/2003 8:41:06 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender
Undermining American Workers


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54 posted on 08/05/2003 8:42:16 PM PDT by comnet
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To: vbmoneyspender
If you have a problem with special interests exerting influence in Washington, D.C., there is a simple solution to that problem. Vastly reduce the amount of power the federal gov't has and shareholders, via the corporations that they have an ownership interest in, won't have to pay protection money to the pols that wield power in Washington.

As far as campaign finance reform is concerned, I favor the solution proposed by Dr. Alan Keyes: eliminate ALL organizational contributions and permit donations only from individual citizens.

I don't accept the "extortion" excuse from those who gleefully pay for such influence for their own benefit.

When push comes to shove, corporations are merely artificial entities, and are not entitled to the same rights as individuals. In the very act of incorporation, investors yielded those rights to government in exchange for limited personal liability for the actions of the corporation. This arrangement is agreed to by our representative government because promotion of commerce is recognized to benefit the general welfare of We the People. However, when corporate activity ceases to provide this general widespread benefit to our society, and actually begins to function to our detriment, it is time for government to intervene and terminate this very fundamental agreement.

106 posted on 08/06/2003 10:17:08 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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