Do "We the People" need to file as a corporation? Serious question.

[rudy23]

Maybe if we did, and we had the same freedoms, and the same fiduciary responsibility to always be "profitable", maybe we could get something accomplished on our own behalf.

Just thinking outside the box, here.

[ixion]

1. yeah, incorporate, or create a lobbying org

either way, that seems to be the only way to get the corrupt creeps to listen.

[Kutjara]

2. Don't worry, they'll soon make it legal to buy and sell people.

After all, you can buy and sell companies and companies are people, so why not create a market in the flesh and blood variety?

But that'll be a good thing: you see, you'll be able to set up a company, use it to buy yourself, and you'll actually have more rights and protections than you have now. As long as nobody sues your company into bankruptcy and gets all its assets, that is. But then, no system is perfect.

Everybody wins in AmeriCorp's Bright Future!

[liberal N proud]

3. Its not about being corporation or person

Its about how much money you have to spend buying a Senator or Representative.

[zbiker]

4. ahhh man ,you stole my idea

and here i had my suitcase packed to move to nebraska, register my self as a union and a health care insurance provider and save myself all that tax debt thats headed my way
ah well, there's always next year

[newspeak]

11. nay, don't ya know unions are not that rich

they've been killing the unions for years--but now the health insurance industry-the ceo's are making a killing. I'd say that's your best bet--of course, now the pharma industry might be a better bet.

[zbiker]

12. true, but with the deal that was just cut with the unions

it couldn't hurt :), wonder if i could figure a way to incorporate in nebraska as a not for profit,pharmacy industry health insurance union. na probably not, they'll figure a way to tax me out of existence eventually.

i can just see the headlines now

CEO OF NEW TAX EXEMPT CO GOES BEFORE CONGRESS
yep, that would turn some heads lol

[Bitwit1234]

5. I posted that saying that we should all go to Legal Zoom

and incorporate ourselves. Then maybe we would be able to get the same rights at the supreme court gave corporations. Wouldn't that be different, putting ourselves on a par with a corporation. Seriously wonder if we could and how much would it cost.

Then we could advertise, tell anybody that wanted to to join us. Take up donations and then pick our own candidate and donate all we can and want to see if we can get them elected.

[Trillo]

6. Counter question:

Have we already been incorporated by a third party?

[bridgit]

7. That is what it is going to take. One person cannot any longer just knock on the door...

Cause they wanna see The Wizard for whatever reason...


And if 'the system' only respects tort and pursuant legal remedies: then I say form no-less than a class action able to be served by way of corporate person-hood

[librechik]

8. yeah, I suggested that earlier--but seriously, we should UNIONIZE

as liberals, and then be eligible for all that great political cash spending bonanza.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. OK. Who'll run it?............

Not trying to be difficult, and it's a brilliant question. But the procedural end might be a nightmare.

[rudy23]

13. I know--elections!

We could even narrow it down to two people--one who represents our more conservative types, and one who is a more liberal minded person. The winner could head a body of people who executed various tasks on the procedural end of meeting the bodies needs, protecting them and their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit....

;)

[old mark]

10. Maybe we'd have enough money to actually have congress listen to us.

Not like now.


mark

[Alias Dictus Tyrant]

14. It has been done before

See "Indian Corporations", and analogous constructs in extended families.

It doesn't buy you much, since the quality of the result is greatly dependent on the quality of the participants. I'd call it a wash.