I got it the first time.
Let me get this straight.... people have the right to free speech...groups of people have the right to free speech...but if a group of people arbitrarily calls themselves a corporation they lose that right? Why?
Because we are not talking about free speech in spite of what the Courts say, or people like McCain. Article One speaks to the rights of the people, not some fictional entity established by the government, and which the Founders hoped would only exist for the maximum of 20 years, and were not to be involved in politics.
http://addictinginfo.org/2013/06/09/founding-fathers/
You stated: However, since you cannot prove any of them would actually perform as "theorized" there is not much to debate.
So.....what is the point of then debating it?
None really. I just wanted to see what you would say. Debating economics is really a waste of time since no economic theory has ever been put into practice. Combinations of various theories have been tried, and all have failed.
http://www.crisispapers.org/essays8p/Theory.htm
"An economist and his guide, while hunting in Africa, fall into an elephant trap: twenty feet deep with vertical walls.
“That does it,” says the guide, “we’re done for. No escape, no food, no chance of being found in time.”
“Nonsense,” said the economist, “I can get us out of here.”
“And how do you propose to do that?,” the guide asks.
The economist replies: “Well, first we posit a ladder.”
Economists are no more inclined than the rest of us to live in a fantasy world – not, that is, as they go about the practical business of living their everyday lives. But when economists write technical papers and teach university courses, they often enter a theoretical realm of abstract concepts such as “economic man” (
homo economicus) and “perfect markets,” articulated with virtuoso advanced mathematical manipulations. Very elegant, and very unreal.
Many economists, perhaps most, appreciate the limitations of economic theory in explaining and predicting social behavior and political trends. Some economists, however, claim to find in traditional (i.e. “neo-classical”) economic theory, the key to articulating and proposing public policy. It’s called “market absolutism,” and it has dominated American politics since the Reagan administration. It has also led this nation to the brink of economic disaster.
Market absolutism has led us to this crisis because its proponents in academia, politics and the media have been bewitched by theoretical concepts that apply imperfectly, if at all, to the real world in which we live and work. In particular: they posit an imaginary creature (“economic man”) that inhabits a mythical environment (the “perfect market.”)"
