Darkwind
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People who invest in a company understand that they do not get a say in how the company conducts business unless they purchase a controlling stake in the company. This is understood right from the beginning. Your ownership is silent.Where do you get the notion that the company is using your money? The corporation is using its money to protect its own interest. If you do not like the way a company is using its resources to look after its own interests, you sell your interest in the company and find one that does support your own interests. I simply don't know where you are coming from with this.
It isn't as if you are talking about compulsive dues to keep your job like you find in a union.
If you invest in a corporation, then you own part of that corporation, and the money it is using to "protect it's own interests" is YOUR money.
But in most cases you would only know the corporation was spending the money to support the candidate until AFTER the money had already been spent.
Besides, Mutual funds often invest in a broad, changing array of corporations. There's a good chance you'll have know idea it's your money supporting their efforts.
The money that the company is using to protect its interests is the COMPANIES money. They pay you a dividend to use it AS THEY SEE FIT. This is the way that market works.
If you do not wish to invest in a company, don't do so. If you do not like a companies politics, avoid them.
But most important. Do NOT use the stock market as a political tool. The stock market is there for you to make money. End of purpose.
Trying to jeopardize the entire free speech clause of the United States because you don't like the way a company you invest in advertises is not sound thinking.
Have the left gotten so far down the road of narcissism that they think that they get to have a say in anything they touch?
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