If there’s a Republican presidential candidate with the decency and heart to stick up for the hundreds of voiceless, dispossessed corporations, who work so hard to make America (China) great that they forget to pay their taxes, it’s Macy’s store mannequin Mitt Romney.
During in an appearance in Iowa, Mitt Romney reminded an irate crowd of angry Iowans that “corporations are people, too.”
After getting word that Romney had included a defense of Massachusetts’s tax hikes in his 2004 pitch to S&P, volunteers with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, a liberal think tank, brought it up to Romney. Being the exquisitely elusive Mormon that he is, Romney deftly dodged the question, explaining what tax loopholes were.
“We had banks that classified themselves as real estate companies to get tax breaks,” he said. He was open, he said, to closing loopholes. Just not raising taxes.
When those in the crowd suggested taxes on corporations be tapped to make up the difference to shore up funds for Entitlement programs, Romney replied: “Corporations are people too, my friend . . . Everything corporations earn ultimately go to people.”
Oh, Mittens. Corporations are people like grizzly bears are pets.
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He’s a Mormon that is what they’re all about…it’s their God Corporation and ain’t no way he is going to be FOR treating corporations like they are NOT people. It would be against everything Mormonism is about! They pretty much epitomize what the tea party is all about.
If companies are people, then they should be treated like people, CEO’s and other representations of the company should be arrested for crimes committed by the company. Round them up and finger print them, take mug shots, and book ‘em if they break the law. All this white collar crime that isn’t treated harshly enough can be now, all the embezzling, ponzi schemes, or bad mines and other work conditions, environmental problems like oil spills and dumping and air pollution, anything that breaks a law, the company should be charged and tried like a person and if that means a bunch of company people get arrested, so be it.