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- demvoter ( @demvoter@kbin.social ) 60•1 year ago
This is insane
- UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ ( @UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org ) English58•1 year ago
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. This has to be nipped in the bud IMMEDIATELY. Can’t be giving them ideas.
- 𝕸𝖗. 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖊 𝕿𝖆𝖈𝖔 ( @MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English58•1 year ago
When corporations get inprisoned for commiting crimes maybe then i would think let them voting could be good.
- fades ( @fades@beehaw.org ) English50•1 year ago
Democracy is hanging by a thread and this is essentially a diamond tipped blade heading straight for it
- reric88🧩 ( @reric88@beehaw.org ) English35•1 year ago
Maybe my little caveman brain just can’t comprehend this, but in my head, this is so simple a kid should understand. Corporations have owners, and those owners already vote. Why should they get a second vote? That doesn’t make sense to me.
- greenskye ( @greenskye@beehaw.org ) English27•1 year ago
Which is also why corporations shouldn’t be able to give money to political causes. If my ceo wants to donate to some politician let him. But he shouldn’t get to do that and also direct company funds there as well.
- deaf_fish ( @deaf_fish@lemm.ee ) English28•1 year ago
Isn’t it possible for one person to create multiple LLCs? Hence being able to vote multiple times?
- hglman ( @hglman@lemmy.ml ) English12•1 year ago
Yes. This is possibly the whole point.
- jarfil ( @jarfil@lemmy.ml ) English7•1 year ago
At that point… they could just make it official and say “$1 net worth = 1 vote”.
It’s not like reality is that far from that already, when “1 person = 1 vote” can only cast their vote on a representative financed by someome with large enough net worth, then discard a bunch of “1 person” votes, and end up with “1 representative = 1 vote” who can further be lobbied based on someone’s or some company’s net worth.
- howey ( @howey@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Sydney Australia allows businesses to vote in local elections. Businesses get 2 votes, humans get 1. So you don’t even need to own multiple companies to have an advantage over the commoners - it’s built right into the system!
- ArtZuron ( @ArtZuron@beehaw.org ) English28•1 year ago
In my humble opinion, just as “no taxation without representation” is a thing the gov should abide by; “no representation without taxation” is probably good too. If these company’s want to vote, have them pay 50% of all the money they every make to taxes.
Actually, not even then. If they want to vote, even if they paid 99% of their profits towards taxes to vote it would be a bad idea.
- reverendz ( @reverendz@beehaw.org ) English29•1 year ago
Any entity that cannot be executed or imprisoned does not have to navigate the same fears and dangers of citizen beings.
Corps as persons is one of the most monstrous ideas ever. Yes, legally it made some things easier, but we see the outcome.
The whole idea and rules regarding incorporation needs to be revamped from the ground up.
- ArtZuron ( @ArtZuron@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
You have no criticism from me on this. Companies either should have no say in politics at all, or a whole shit ton of actual, meaningful penalties for abuse if they do.
- hglman ( @hglman@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
I would consider it if owners were punished for all crimes committed by the company by any member. And not by fines.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
The government already doesn’t abide by that principle. Votes cast by people in left-leaning areas count for a small fraction of what votes cast in right-leaning areas count for. Those convicted of a crime may not vote at all. Nor those without citizenship. Yet all of these groups pay taxes.
If taxation without representation were generally considered revolution-worthy, as it once was, there would have been a revolution decades ago.
- Buzz4074 ( @Buzz4074@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Tax them as an individual.
- ArtZuron ( @ArtZuron@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I’d say tax them equivalent to all the individuals in the company combined. If there’s a 1000 employees, charge them the same you’d take 1000 people all at once. Then maybe triple it to account for the fact that they amplify the efforts of those people many times over.
- Panteleimon ( @potsnpans@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
If an entity is not subject to the legal restrictions of an individual, it should not benefit from the legal rights of an individual.
- ArtZuron ( @ArtZuron@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Yeah, pretty much.
- bridger ( @bridger@tucson.social ) English26•1 year ago
So if corporations are people and can vote, can they be charged with crimes like murder?
- Kettlepants ( @Kettlepants@lemm.ee ) English25•1 year ago
No, don’t be silly. Only poor people can commit crimes. ^/s
- anji ( @anji@lemmy.anji.nl ) 23•1 year ago
We continue to inch closer to full-blown corporatocracy. We’ve all watched and read enough cyberpunk to see where that leads.
- Lightninhopkins ( @Lightninhopkins@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
With Keanu Reeves blowing up a skyscraper?
- Roland ( @dinodrinkstea@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Hopefully, but sadly no. At least not yet.
- SilentStorms ( @SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English17•1 year ago
Not American, but is that even constitutional?
- bayjird ( @bayjird@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
From the article:
A handful of other Delaware towns, including Fenwick Island, Henlopen Acres and Dagsboro, already allow corporations to vote
- borkcorkedforks ( @borkcorkedforks@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
So what you’re saying is that I can already spin up extra LLCs and get extra ballots?
- Blakerboy777 ( @Blakerboy777@feddit.online ) 20•1 year ago
The corporations themselves cannot vote. This law allows the owner of the corporation to vote even if they do not live within the city proper. No one can vote twice - whether you live in the city and own a corporation or own multiple corporations. And it’s only for corporations that own property. While it’s easy to imagine this backfiring, the steelman position is - you own a small business one town over, you have a significant role in the local economy, giving you one vote the same as any resident sounds pretty reasonable. Rich folk who own a house and live their 2 months out of the year are potentially eligible to vote as well, so it’s potentially more justified that the owner of the local bakery gets to vote too. Could this end up being horribly abused? I don’t know that there are enough safeguards against it. But this doesn’t immediately scream the end of democracy to me.
- TheTrueLinuxDev ( @TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org ) 21•1 year ago
But it definitely screams the death of a town when corporate find a way to game the system.
- AveragePigeon ( @AveragePigeon@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
I guess my main concern would be, are these owners or part-time residents voting elsewhere also? Would give new meaning to “vote early, vote often” if so.
- Cylinsier ( @Cylinsier@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
With this SCOTUS constitutionality no longer matters.
- MinnePuffin ( @MinnePuffin@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
It doesn’t feel constitutional, but you can make any law as long as no one takes you to court.
- ddh ( @DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 year ago
Not American, but wondering how easy it is for foreigners to control US corporations.
- Blakerboy777 ( @Blakerboy777@feddit.online ) 3•1 year ago
It’s extremely easy, and I believe this bill also allows for them to vote by proxy, which exacerbates that concern. But on the other hand, they do need to own property, so it isn’t a totally costless endevour.
- xuxebiko ( @xuxebiko@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
Seaford, Delaware, is so open-minded, their brains have fallen out.
- arefx ( @arefx@lemmy.ml ) English16•1 year ago
What an absolutely awful idea.
- root_beer ( @root_beer@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
Until corporations can be incarcerated or sentenced to death, they should not be given the right to vote.
- pseudorandom ( @pseudorandom@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Well, time to register 5000 new corporations in that town.
- Panteleimon ( @potsnpans@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
What - and I cannot emphasize this next part enough - the fuck