Perez: Corporations not people 'until Texas executes one'

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 2/10/12 | David Siders

[SmithL]

SAN DIEGO -- Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez may be nowhere more popular than at a labor caucus meeting at a Democratic convention, and so it was that he received a standing ovation here this afternoon and tried out a one-liner on the crowd.

"This year you've seen Mitt Romney and others talk about the fact that corporations are people," the former labor organizer said. "I won't believe corporations are people until Texas executes one of them."

[SmithL]

I can't imagine why California has such an anti-business reputation.

[krb]

Perhaps, but that was a pretty good line.

[mnehring]

"I won't believe corporations are people until Texas executes one of them."

Date of execution- December 2nd, 2001.

[GoDuke]

Perhaps they could start with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? j/k

[goodnesswins]

YEAH...I’d say DEMOCRATS, especially Obomba, are experts at executing corporations....that or blackmailing them.

[gunsequalfreedom]

He has a point and it was a good one-liner even if you disagree with it.

Corporate corporations decision was really, really bad. We might just as well hand our government over to foreign interests.

[Migraine]

Corporations not people 'until Texas executes one'

They did. Remember when Southern Methodist University got the Death Penalty?

[gunsequalfreedom]

Perhaps they could start with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

Hey, that's about the only good programming left on TV. Hands off!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’m not sure there’s any way around having corporate or company involvement in American politics. Ugly as it is, much uglier things can be imagined.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yup, that would-be snappy zinger has a logical enough comeback. The only thing you don’t get when a corporation is executed is a grave.

[BillyBoy]

He stole that line from the signs that the OWS people carry. In fact, I discussed this very point with an Occupy person in Chicago who was carrying such a slogan. I said that I agree that corporations are not people (they are legal entities which EMPLOY people), but they are definitely capable of being executed.

Pat Quinn never executes any people, but he's sure as heck executes Illinois corporations (and for the ones he hasn't killed outright killed them, he's at least terrorized them to the point where they flee the state)!

[SmithL]

Hands off CPB is OK with me as long as they don’t get any taxpayer money.

[aaCharley]

It may be a clever line intended to confuse. However, if corporations were not considered the same as people, they would not be taxed on earnings. Those earnings would be taxed at the corporate shareholder level. The poorly educated don’t understand that.

[aaCharley]

It may be a clever line intended to confuse. However, if corporations were not considered the same as people, they would not be taxed on earnings. Those earnings would be taxed at the corporate shareholder level. The poorly educated don’t understand that.

[fr_freak]

Meh, lefties never think for themselves. That slogan has been going around the lefties for weeks or even months now.

As for me, I'll believe corporations are people when Planned Parenthood aborts one.

[SoConPubbie]

However, if corporations were not considered the same as people, they would not be taxed on earnings. Those earnings would be taxed at the corporate shareholder level. The poorly educated don’t understand that.

It's funny, but I don't believe business entities are mentioned in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution.

Am I wrong?

[SECURE AMERICA]

Perhaps, but that was a pretty good line

Really? Makes no sense . Seemes pretty silly to me.

[GVnana]

Somebody buy that robot a dictionary. He’s having issues with “corporate.”

[C210N]

Corporations are more "people" than unions are.

Besides, corporations euthanized for all intents and purposes by zer() include GM and Chrysler (as experienced by their bondholders), thousands of small businesses. The regulation stranglehold in every industry is choking almost all business to a near-death experience.

[Bob]

It may be a clever line intended to confuse. However, if corporations were not considered the same as people, they would not be taxed on earnings. Those earnings would be taxed at the corporate shareholder level. The poorly educated don’t understand that.

By his thinking, children and even teenagers aren't people either.

[Erik Latranyi]

Corporations are not people.

This is a liberal tactic.

When a conservative sees this, they think “corporations are not like individuals.....individuals have God-given rights, corporations do not.”

But you have to remember that liberals do not believe in individual rights. They believe in collective rights and grouping for the purposes of diminishing individualism.

The other key point to remember is that liberals have empowered and given special treatment to unions. There is little difference between unions and corporations. Therefore, liberals are trying to be selective about which groups are empowered and prevent corporations from rebalancing the field between management and labor.

[ExGeeEye]

Enron

Born 1932, Omaha, Nebraska

Executed 2001, Houston, Texas

QED.

[ExGeeEye]

(Took a long time to die.)

[ExGeeEye]

GMTA.

[trebb]

Perhaps, but that was a pretty good line.

Of course, it could be complented by, "Corporations aren't families until the government tears one apart.....oh wait."

[TalBlack]

“I won’t believe corporations are people until Texas executes one of them.”

This is the kind of shallow, glib nonsense the left excels at. Corporations are made up of PEOPLE who have just as many rights and just as much protection under the constitution as Perez does.

[BobL]

“Date of execution- December 2nd, 2001.”

I was going to say the same thing about their so-called “accounting firm” Arthur Andersen, whose workers had less morals than the mafia. I think they were executed by the feds though (just to emerges as Accenture, showing that reincarnation is possible in the corporate world).

[RatRipper]

I won't believe corporations are people until Texas executes one of them.

Aw BS . . . Democrats do it all the time . . . .