Posted on 12/09/2011 8:15:56 AM PST by Daffynition
The Comedy Central satirist — and South Carolina native — approached state Republican Party officials a few months ago about making a significant contribution to the party through his Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow super PAC.
In return, Colbert requested the party place a ballot question on the state’s first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary set for Jan. 21, that dealt with corporate personhood. The party agreed and on Nov. 11 asked state election officials to add a ballot referendum that asked voters to decide whether “corporations are people” or “only people are people.”
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If you read the whole article you can see that Colbert failed in the attempt.
That said, its no surprise that money talks to the Republican establishment just as loud as it talks to the Dems.
I fail to see any humor in Colbert at all.
I did. The fact that they even *considered* talking to this loon, amazes me. We’re up chits sreek.
Because there is no humor there. It’s pure mean spirited mocking of conservatives.
I despise a smart a$$.
I despise a smart a$$.
This guy claims to be a Catholic and I think his family belongs to some church around Charleston.
At some point, we seriously need to confront these tools of Media Matters on "Comedy" Central. I monitor Jon Stewart (can't waste time watching him, I just read his morning press releases about how hilarious he was the night before) and his stoned audience...
A certainty in life is when it comes to politicians, money always gets their attention.
But in reality it is a question that should be put to the voters and “we the people”. Should global corporations such as GE with their multi-national citizenships, that represent China, India, Japan, Mexico etc be permitted to spend their money as US citizens influencing our government?
The question should be asked of every American citizen because it inevitably affects our sovereignty. This is a corporatist issue, not conservative.
This wrong usage of English and words drives me nuts in daily life. In politics it is worse because you never know whether the usage mistakes are a result of ignorance or an agenda.
No state in the union thinks that corporations are people. People are people—human beings—living and breathing. Corporations are considered for some constructs as a “person”. That is important for many reasons. How could you charge an abstract entity like a corporation for a crime? Notice how it is impossible to charge a government for a crime?
If a corporation were unable to avail itself of some basic rights granted freely to people: free speech, free association, freedom to contract, the right to property, due process of law, etc., then no one would ever invest in a corporation and one of the greatest job creation engines of human history would go away.
It seems ironic to me that the crowd who decries a corporation’s person hood, nevertheless wants to tax the hell out of one like it is a person. And they ignore the dirty little economic secret that corporations never pay taxes. Only people pay taxes—that is the employees, customers, vendors and shareholders of a corporation.
Are unions considered ‘corporations’ when it comes to political donations?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/election-2012-super-pac-stephen-colbert-loses-staffer/story?id=14328734
Able to raise unlimited amounts of money...and all this while I thought my vote counted. Silly me.
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Colbert ultimately failed in his attempt. Funny paragraph from the article:
“After the citizens of South Carolina declare once and for all that corporations are people, we can move on to other urgent issues facing our great nation,” Colbert said in a statement. “In 2016 I hope to include a question on whether Democrats are people.”
Multi-nationals are global abstract entities whose function is solely about making money from people of the world and for owners from all over the world. Their interests are not for America but only what they can sell or what they can steal from US taxpayers in subsidies by renting our politicians.
If Americans value their right to sovereignty i.e. a nation of laws made by and for American citizens, and not become a nation of serfs to global corporations with an agenda of open borders where labor can enter at will, we had better begin to understand the difference between conservatism, patriotism and the corporate new world order. The latter will destroy us as a nation.
In recent years GE made billions in profits but paid no taxes and instead got credits. They are just like NFL teams that pit one city against another looking for the biggest taxpayer funded stadium, so they can pay owners 9 digits and players 8 digits instead of 7. Except the corporations do it globally.
Instead of GE demonstrating loyalty to the country and market that made them successful they move their operations and R&D that we subsidized off shore and now they can legally bribe our government (and others?). BTW taxes are not necessarily an automatic pass through expense by any business or corporation that has competition. They are an expense and cause operational trade offs that ultimately need prioritized from executive compensation to employees.
FYI..RedState has a 10 minute clip of Gov Haley’s presser today...simply awresome..
He's not a native South Carolinian; he was born in DC.
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