130814personhood

2013:August:14

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	Laura Bonham, Harm Small Business , brainstorming


Just read your article at Common Dreams [ https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/09 ] off a Move To Amend email (8/13), and got thinking - a bad habit of mine.  1st I wondered if Welfare, Food Stamp or Unemployment benefits couldn't be used to crack corporate personhood wide open.  Welfare for an ailing business might be plausible on the surface.  Food Stamps for a business that can no longer afford a free meal for workers might be easier.  Though businesses pay for employees' unemployment, a business could try to pay-in for itself against hard times - extremely cheap insurance?  Tell them that we're applying to highlight the absurdity.  If turned down, we sue and hold a press conference.  If approved, we hold a press conference.  At least good publicity and repeatedly makes a standing joke of Citizens United. 

Also plausible is a very popular Colorado Amendment, the Gallagher Amendment, Sections 3 and 15 of Article X, that sets the ratio of business vs. home property taxes.  Always, the point is the absurdity of the law and this uber-big-business Court.

Reductio ad absurdum, when it works, is major fun