> With regards to the statement about being a "tax paying entity" or not to have a voice, that is an extremely dangerous road to go down. See "poll taxes".
Not at all. Every person has the potential to pay taxes, whether they do or not. We have wisely decided that people who make below some vague amount don't have to pay taxes. But they'd be eligible to pay if they made more money. As opposed to a theoretically non tax paying corporation.
As for corporations "speaking", the people controlling the corporation are using the productivity of their workers to speak for those workers (if money is speech, that money came from the employees' productivity), whether their employees want the to or not. They're unjustly gaining extra speech, beyond their individual speech, which everyone already has a right to.
EDIT: taxes and speech, I probably wasn't clear. Any person can vote, whether they pay taxes or not. They have skin in the game, because they're people. Their population determines congressional districts at every census, and corporations do not. I'm not saying you can't vote until you make enough to pay.
Not at all. Every person has the potential to pay taxes, whether they do or not. We have wisely decided that people who make below some vague amount don't have to pay taxes. But they'd be eligible to pay if they made more money. As opposed to a theoretically non tax paying corporation.
As for corporations "speaking", the people controlling the corporation are using the productivity of their workers to speak for those workers (if money is speech, that money came from the employees' productivity), whether their employees want the to or not. They're unjustly gaining extra speech, beyond their individual speech, which everyone already has a right to.
EDIT: taxes and speech, I probably wasn't clear. Any person can vote, whether they pay taxes or not. They have skin in the game, because they're people. Their population determines congressional districts at every census, and corporations do not. I'm not saying you can't vote until you make enough to pay.