[re_nortex]

As much as I detest Myth Romney, he did get one thing right: corporations are people. The Citizens United decision was in harmony with both the spirit and letter of the First Amendment.

Of course, I'd personally like to see labor unions prohibited from donating to political campaigns. They're nothing more than extortion rackets and I'd lend 100% support to a Conservative candidate that finds a means to RICO those corrupt outfits out of America forever. In my book, unions aren't comprised of people, they're made up of goons.

[Dead Corpse]

How does a fictitious "person" acquire more Rights and legal standing than an actual individual?

"More Rights" you ask? Yes... Different tax laws, liabilities under both regulation and law, personal indemnity, ... The list they've carved for themselves is impressive.

A person has Rights. A corporation is Property.

Logic 101.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

       

"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith

That quote is generally cited against business monopolies, but it is clearly explicitly an anti-union sentiment as well.

As well as, I would argue, an argument against the Associated Press and other wire services. The AP was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act back in 1945. It was “too big to fail” back then, but now its mission of conservation of bandwidth in the transmission of the news is - with the advent of laser, fiber optic, microwave, and satellite communication - an anachronism.