I think that Corporations which legally are artificial “Persons” should have one of their rights removed by Congress.
A Corporation and a business is a privilege created by the government. Currently as I am aware the only legal difference between “the people” and these Persons (Corporations) is that Corporations can not vote.
Since Congress creates the laws regarding commerce and the states create the laws with respect to Corporations, they are God, creator. The government has the power to create and tax and should exercise its right as creator and manage these corporations financial dealings more strictly than real living humans. It should not matter to one single living person because these Persons do not really exist except as pieces of paper.
We have checks and balances and the courts have upheld corporations rights to donate money to political elections. I believe laws could be formulated that will limit and take away the privileges of companies to donate money in such a way as it would be upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court. I’m speaking philosophically, I don’t know the details, but the people and the government should work together (and leave out the Corporate – “Persons” to come up with laws which would be legal, fair and eventually be upheld to the Supreme Court.
I am not against money being donated by any individual working for any corporation. There should be no limit upon a citizen how much he donates. I believe corporations should funnel their money to its employees however the corporation sees fit, and then the individuals can donate the money in any amount. We don’t want to deny an individuals rights, we do want to limit non-existent humans rights.
This is only one part of the solution.
It is my strong belief that most of our country’s labor hours are spent fixing things that other people broke. Wars, crime and our appetite for throwing stuff away and buying new hurts our economy by generally making everyone one of us to work harder and longer to pay for it all. In economics, I’ve never heard the “Broken Window fallacy” taught, but it should be mandatory! If a window is broken on purpose by another, the owner can now NOT buy what he wanted to buy, he must buy what he HAS to buy. He must work harder and longer.
I can understand why others would WANT to work harder and longer, so at least they CAN work. The only solution as I see it, is to educate people so they KNOW that we must conserve and not destroy and that it will help us net total in the future.