Actually I am not against corporations. I drive vehicles made by corps and have a house full products manufactured by corps.
HOWEVER... I don't think they should have unlimited power, or corporate constitutional rights like people, and they should not be able to force themselves on communities like Gov. Cuomo and Article X could do to us in Cape Vincent because of inordinate WEALTH . We should have a choice.
For example I don't think we should write zoning laws in fear of corporate power, and the political system that enables that fear by preemption. Yet that is what we did trying to write a law that was "reasonable" to Article X and BP. Why wasn't our first conversation about completely protecting people, not what we could slide by the State and BP????
I don't think corps should have the " right" to dominate our communities simply because they can out last us in court or use OUR constitution as a sword to wield the power to decapitate our communities. I think we should be allowed to grant the "privilege" for corps to do business in our communities if we feel they are acceptable and compatible to our community vision.
We should have community bill of rights that proclaims that no govt, person, or corp can take away our rights based on religious beliefs, sexual orientation, color, race, gender, age, national origin ...
...or their WEALTH !!!!!
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