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And those people vote. In making corporations eligible to to make additional campaign contributions, you are effectively creating an elite class within society, one that has extra rights to ensure certain candidates advance.

It's nondemocratic!

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Who creates corporations? Who works at corporations? Who owns corporations? And there's your answer.

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I believe in unlimited campaign contributions for all. Whether it is democratic or not is a moot point, as we are a republic, not a democracy.

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Yes I wouldn't say "Wal-Mart is a person."
But I would say "Wal-Mart is people."

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It's definitely an interesting comparison. Most of the subjects that they receive when given personhood, I agree with. I just think they need to go about it a different way. It creates a blurry line of distinction between people and corps.

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Corporations are not people.

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Can a person be cut in half and still survive?

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That is true too.

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I'm not 100% sure what the answer it, but I do believe it has to be the same for both questions.

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Corporations are people whose main focus is success and self interests. This is nothing new and every day people share the same desire.

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Is "Wal-Mart" an individual human? No, but it is made up of its owners and employees, who are people.

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Excellent distinction!

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Haha, fair point. I wouldn't say that any corporation is an individual, but every corporation is made of people.

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They're groups of people. The entity itself is not a person, but when the individual persons who created it assemble to run it, it's not as if they magically lose all their human rights.