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Corporate Personhood
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Which Is Worse – Government or Corporate Bureaucracy?
Getting rid of government would let corporations step in to fill the gap. And corporate bureaucracy is just as bad, or even worse, than any government bureaucracy.
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Narrow Supreme Court Majority Gives Corporations Freedom of Conscience; Justice Ginsburg Objects
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court once again expanded its doctrine of corporate personhood with its ruling on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case.
Supreme Court Backs Hobby Lobby – and Corporate Personhood
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.
Report: The Big Money in Tax Breaks Continues
In 2013, the cost of tax breaks was equal to the entire US discretionary budget.
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Supreme Court: Helping Biggest Donors, But What About Voters?
SCOTUS has made clear that it will judge attempts to restrict monetary “participation” in elections very strictly. Restrictions on voting have been judged far more leniently.
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When Corporations Get Too Big to Tax
The drive to scrap the corporate income tax won't stop at zero.
Kraft Foods Faces Pressure to Keep Money Out of Politics
During its annual meeting of shareholders today, Kraft Foods Group, Inc. will face a resolution filed by the Green Century Equity Fund urging the company to refrain from using …
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American Democracy No Longer Works
The bottom line here is that the elites are getting what they want, while the rest of us aren't, because money has taken over our political process.
Politics: Another Way To Waste Shareholder Money
In the wake of Citizens United, there is plenty of discussion of how campaign finance law might be changed to limit political participation by corporations.
A Stamp of Disapproval
All those fancy-pants are forever protected in their gilded towers, while the rest of us are the ones caught with our pants down.