That's not very nice. Corporations are people, too, y'know? — Luke
They are tools. Not participants.
Nor should they be allowed to be a means to convert and amplify individual economic power into political power. — Frederick KOH
A corporation must be a tool, considering it cannot do anything without human activity. That's a given.They are tools. Not participants. — Frederick KOH
Nor should they be allowed to be a means to convert and amplify individual economic power into political power.
That's not very nice. Corporations are people, too, y'know? — Luke
The next Hitler is as likely to come from your country as mine. — Mongrel
↪unenlightened You're backpedaling on your own and the article's insinuations. What do you think the statements "in case you thought the constitution would protect you" or "Kochs to rewrite the constitution" mean and imply? Once you figure that out, compare it with the facts and you will see that both you and the article are the ones guilty of hyperbole. — Thorongil
Exactly how they or others will change it if it succeeds is unknown. — unenlightened
I'm calling you out for an unreasoning baseless propagandist, trying to blow smoke in the eyes of the readers. — unenlightened
public benefits programs — Wayfarer
like affordable care — Wayfarer
Which are bankrupting the country and don't result in what they purport to do; quite the opposite in fact: they lead to abuse and dependency. — Thorongil
You are a vacuous bullshitter. — unenlightened
The country was taken far closer to bankruptcy by W's budget mismanagement than by healthcare. — Wayfarer
If T has his way on further tax cuts the deficit will balloon even further — Wayfarer
I'm not an apologist for Bush's domestic overspending. — Thorongil
I doubt you know how deficits are created. — Thorongil
Either more amendments can be added, or they cannot. I'm no expert in constitutional law, so you'll have to enlighten me. — unenlightened
Why not? When I tackled you on Trump's obvious incompetence and possible malfeasance, you said 'oh I don't actually like Trump.' Yet you pop up on all these politics threads, singing from the right-wingers hymn sheets. — Wayfarer
I can read. — Wayfarer
tax revenues went up and not down after the Bush tax cuts, and how the budget deficit declined after them as well. — Thorongil
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