corporations and political agenda
I used this as a reference for the info about supreme court decision.
And also this 6 minutes movie:
Citizens United (Hillary: the Movie) v. Federal Election Commission
IMHO:
I agree with most statements in this video and probably with the decision (too long to read for free).
And think that judgment about the freedom to invest money into political campaign is fair.
However there is one minor issue: minority rights.
How you will decide if participation of some corporation in the political campaign is in interests of all the stockholders?
Only way to ensure that nobody will VOTE FOR you, is some restrictions on participation in the political campaign for corporations.
My point here is that you can't VOTE for me, nobody should have the rights to invest minority funds into some campaign.
Even if 99% of stakeholders vote YES, they shouldn't have ability to push rest of the stakeholders to give their money to somebody's campaign, or sell the stocks to prevent such spendings.
Fair behavior here is just to pay the dividends and then every stakeholder can do whatever he wants with those funds.
I assume there shouldn't be a restrictions for using earned money to spread your point of view.
And also this 6 minutes movie:
Citizens United (Hillary: the Movie) v. Federal Election Commission
IMHO:
I agree with most statements in this video and probably with the decision (too long to read for free).
And think that judgment about the freedom to invest money into political campaign is fair.
However there is one minor issue: minority rights.
How you will decide if participation of some corporation in the political campaign is in interests of all the stockholders?
Only way to ensure that nobody will VOTE FOR you, is some restrictions on participation in the political campaign for corporations.
My point here is that you can't VOTE for me, nobody should have the rights to invest minority funds into some campaign.
Even if 99% of stakeholders vote YES, they shouldn't have ability to push rest of the stakeholders to give their money to somebody's campaign, or sell the stocks to prevent such spendings.
Fair behavior here is just to pay the dividends and then every stakeholder can do whatever he wants with those funds.
I assume there shouldn't be a restrictions for using earned money to spread your point of view.