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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Be nice to corporations

The whole idea that corporations are persons actually comes from the US Supreme Court which granted corporations "personhood" for many purposes that are convenient for the corporation's owners. Mitt Romney recently made an impassioned plea that we remember that corporations are people (so we should be nice to them).

However, as this wonderful illustrated primer from Tom the Dancing Bug teaches in this cartoon (click here to see the whole cartoon), it's actually a pretty one-sided deal.