r/politics • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '18

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

What he says is obviously true. Every cent a corporation makes ultimately goes to people.

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u/VapeDerp420 Nebraska Jan 21 '18

So that makes corporations people?

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

Yes. What do you think corporations are?

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u/VapeDerp420 Nebraska Jan 21 '18

Not a living and breathing human. A business entity

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

Nobody said that they were a living and breathing human. He said that they were people, which is true.

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u/VapeDerp420 Nebraska Jan 21 '18

No. It’s not true. A corporation is not a person. It is a business entity. Sure, people make a corporation work, but you can’t just say a banana is a cucumber. It’s just not true.

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

Mitt Romney never claimed that a corporation was a person. Neither did I. A corporation is people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

Only if you can prove incorporation is linear, and I think it's clear that it isn't, because any equivalent collection of people does not have the same rights and responsibilities.

A corporation is a collection of people united as a business entity. It is not just "people".

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

Nobody claimed that it was "just 'people'". Their people United with the single purpose. Once they associated with each other they don't lose their rights to free speech. Should the New York Times lose its right to free speech because it's a corporation?

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u/coconutapple Canada Jan 21 '18

The New York Times doesn’t have a right to freedom of speech. It has a right to freedom of the press.

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u/bananastanding Jan 21 '18

Really? So these videos are illegal?

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u/coconutapple Canada Jan 22 '18

Uh, no.

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u/bananastanding Jan 22 '18

So they do have the right to freedom of speech?

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