If corporations are people, we should lock them up for crimes. We should charge personal income tax, charge for social security, and give them the death penalty for murder.

Billionaires aren’t people either

More seriously: this line of reasoning has always struck me as incredibly contrived and facile:

• Speech is not subject to the rule of scarcity, and is “free” (as in beer); as such, given a supply of food, water, and breathable air, a person could theoretically speak indefinitely. One’s wealth does not nominally affect how much speech they can output.
• Money is subject to the rule of scarcity, and is not “free” (as in beer); as such, a person has access to substantially different amounts of money based on their personal circumstances, family, upbringing, birth country, etc.; one’s wealth has direct bearing on how much money they can output (and “speak” with).

If corporations are people, every dollar they spend should be 100% supported by every member of said corporation. You think the janitor wants to donate millions to fascists? Because right now it looks like they do. Forced speech like that should be illegal.

This was a line that should have never been crossed, perhaps the last nail in the coffin of the USA.

Once you open up campaigns to unlimited corporate and billionaire donations, it’s precedent, it’s done.

Politics in the USA is now the easiest way to acquire generational wealth without inheriting it. Nancy Pelosi’s family is set for generations. Trump’s family is now financially secure for centuries. They’re not hiding it.

They won’t give up that money willingly.

Nothing the Cons do is about helping anyone but themselves. Our country is too stupid to realize that.

The US was over the minute this happened

If corporations are people, they should pay the same taxes.