Some bleat their cause.

We recently witnesses the greatest heist of taxpayers money in human history. We know not what ever became of all that money. And hundreds of billions more missing in government-military-corporate circles; shadow government is well oiled.

Fighting two wars in perpetuity, unprecedented four-five rotations of solders and Marines on the battle field. Hip, Hip F-ing hooray. Nine years of useless war for Halliburton, Carlye and the usual war profiteers.

Create a boggy man and you control the mind its people.

Promote America, promote Americans, not multinational corporations that have no national pride, nor boundaries, and herald their power over the planet, while flouting conspiratorial deeds.

Cheer for their profits if you will. I chose otherwise.

You say, “At issue, 25 percent of large U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes in 2005 ” Yet that same year the top 25% of wage earners paid 83.6% of all income taxes.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently released a memo (PDF) that sheds some light on the issue:

…[A] small group of higher-income taxpayers pay most of the individual income taxes each year. In 2002, the latest year of available data, the top 5 percent of taxpayers paid more than one-half (53.8 percent) of all individual income taxes, but reported roughly one-third (30.6 percent) of income.

Looks like your problem is you want to promote Class Warfare. You want not only to strip that 5% of their wealth but muzzle their free speech.

You just made the argument for me.

At issue, in its ruling the court reverses a decades-old ruling barring companies from using their general funds to fund political campaigns.

At issue,in it’s ruling the Court implicitly embraces a 125 year-old precedent in the case of Santa Clara v. Santa Fe, where the Court first developed the legal doctrine of corporate personhood, explicitly granting corporations the same political and civil rights granted to human beings (historian Thom Hartmann discovered that the principle originated with a corrupt court clerk who added it to the case summary, rather than with the court itself).

At issue, the ruling removes all limits on large corporations to finance and influence federal elections.

At issue, 25 percent of large U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes in 2005 (the latest year studied) despite reporting collective sales exceeding $1.1 trillion. If they were people, they would be in jail for tax evasion.

At issue,corporations can’t have it both ways—insisting upon the same political and civil rights that human are guaranteed, while at the same time refusing to live within the constraints of human life and laws that govern our lifes.

The time was right for fascism to surge forward.

Did we tap the keg a little to much today Branson?

I hate to break it to you but Corporations have been viewed as individuals in the USA for lets see… 234 years. Before that Mother England regognized the concept of corporations several hundred years prior. Ever hear of Corporations like “The Hudson Bay Company”, “Lloyds of London”, British, and Dutch East India Companies, chartered in 1600 and 1602 respectively?

Come on Branson break out the old crib sheets from your Bar Exams.

I hope your wank is longer than your memory of history or you’d always be pissing down your leg.

The really good thing about this ruling is all those non-profit organizations that were stopped by McCain-Feingold are now able to get and mix it up in the political arena too.

A list of British Colonial Companies:
Company of Merchant Adventurers of London · Company of Merchant Adventurers · London and Bristol Company · African Company of Merchants · Muscovy Company · Spanish Company · Eastland Company · Morocco Company · East India Company · Levant Company · Virginia Company · French Company · Massachusetts Bay Company · Providence Island Company · Royal West Indian Company · Hudson’s Bay Company · Royal African Company · Greenland Company · South Sea Company · Sierra Leone Company · North Borneo Company · Royal Niger Company · South Africa Company