Romney:"Corporations are people"

[cavalcade]

I hope someone jumps all over him at the debate tonight for this.

Where's Mike Huckabee when you need him?

I could see Bachmann taking a shot.  Maybe Paul if he gets goaded into it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A corporation is just a piece of paper. Tear it up or burn it and the corporation ceases to exist. Modify it and you have created a different corporation.


What matters is what the paper says. The paper decribes a relationship between a group of people to establish an entity for the purpose engaging in a for profit activity. A Corporation is thus a group of people, but without those people, the corporation doesn't exist. Therefore it is logical to assert that corporation is that group of people.


Edit: They are using the incident for Romney's fundraising. Unless they are talking about a different incident in Iowa. lol

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Sorry, but corporations are not people, they are entities with agendas. Individual people generally cannot have the same sort of resources and authority that corporations do.

Of course, a corporation's purpose is to pool resources to engage in an activity more efficiently then someone operating independently can.

Entities don't have agendas. The people who created, and operate them, do.

[Nichlemn]

It would have been so easy to avoid this by just saying "corporations are run by/owned by people too". He didn't appear to be trying to make a legal statement about corporate personhood, just (correctly) pointing out that corporations aren't faceless machines.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I think Romney just lost the election today.

That stance is nuts.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

So why aren't any corporations running for President?

Actually there are. They're called Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Corporations, at least the large ones, are property of their shareholder, who are in fact real people.

My computer, bicycle, TV set, and camping tent are property of me, but that doesn't make them me.

[DrScholl]

Of course, a corporation's purpose is to pool resources to engage in an activity more efficiently then someone operating independently can.

Entities don't have agendas. The people who created, and operate them, do.

An entity created by people does have a specific agenda and when it grows into a huge corporation, there is nothing individual about it. Romney seemed to be talking about the corporation being a person rather than the individuals that run it.

[Likely Voter]

This reminds me of Kerrry's "I voted for it before I voted against it". It is just something that reaffirms the worst side of the candidate. In Kerrys case that he was a flip flopper, and here that Romney is a rich corporate elitist.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Mitt Romney is just courting the all-important Corporate vote.

[Penelope]

I think Romney just lost the election today.

That stance is nuts.

Pretty much.

Considering that it's getting news now, I'm sure the Obama campaign has already saved it for future use.

I can see the ads now.