g5000
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The main problem with corporations as people is that they apparently have free speech too but they are the ones who get to use a megaphone. They get to be the squeakiest wheel in all cases, even the ones that do not directly effect them.
But couldn't you make the same claim about any group of people who pool their money for political action? Are you opposed to people combining their efforts for political change in general? Or just when those people share ownership of a business? Should individual business owners be silenced as well?
This is exactly right. Everyone is free to join a political association to amplify their voice. The NRA, a labor union, Greenpeace, etc.
Since the people we elect write laws which affect corporations, then those corporations have a right to defend themselves. It is as simple as that.
If the left had its way, corporations would be stripped defenseless in the public square so their means of production could be placed into the hands of the government.