NIT – US Senator and former comedian Al Franken says that corporations are not people and something has to be done about the idea that they are.
Franken is running for re-election to the US Senate from Minnesota. In a campaign ad on his website, he lashed out at the notion that “corporations are people, elections are auctions, democracy is for sale”.
Citizens United calls itself “the namesake of the 2010 controversial landmark Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate political spending”. It describes the U.S. Supreme Court case – Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission – as “the case has been heralded as the greatest free speech victory of the last decade.”
Franken called Citizens United – a Supreme Court case that allowed corporations to greatly increase the amount of money, and how it is spent, on political campaigns, “a disaster”. He proposes a constitutional amendment that “puts power back in the hands of the people. The actual, human people” and offers a petition for people to sign in support of the amendment.
What is your opinion. Are corporation the same as people?
