A pro-Walkerite who called in to Kathleen Dunn's Wisconsin Public Radio program recently said people should support corporations because corporations create wealth.
Wrong!
Corporations do not create wealth. Corporations are inert fabrications of a legal process.
PEOPLE create wealth. People amass capital to form the structure in which they -- people -- hire other people to do the work. People buy the goods/services produced/offered by the people who do the work, which enables the people running the company to stay in business -- that, and government subsidies/tax breaks which are funded by people, which means capitalism-U.S. style is anything but "free market."
The profit, or lack thereof, depends on how well or poorly people operate the business.
The 'corporation' people form is nothing but a piece of paper. It's a legal procedure enabled by a government.
I'm truly conservative about who or what I think should be called a person or people.
In this context, I might also be considered a birther. If a corporation really is a person, as the SCOTUS 5 says, then show me the birth certificate -- the orginal authentic one, not some gerry-rigged proxy, show me its proof of citizenship.
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