Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
A corporation is not a person. It is a legal entity.
Under the law, we treat legal entities different than we treat people.
I thought the question was whether or not corporations can exist without people. I say no, any business entity that has no people is not a corporation. Corporations have stockholders, management and employees, they make something or do something that is profitable or they go out of business. If corp taxes are changed or you change regulations that affect their business ops, the people for work for the corporations could be affected, and so would their suppliers and customers. It's all about people; if you're just talking about some paper institution that does nothing and has no people, that's not a corporation.
I don't really have a dog in this fight but I hear some self-proprietors incorporate themselves (usually in Delaware) for tax purposes.
Regardless, the idea that a corporation is a human being is something that only the profoundly out-of-touch and their apologists would parrot.
Yeah, but that self-proprietor is a person, no? He/she IS the corporation, no?