Companies must pay their fair share of taxes

Companies are not people. There, I stand in opposition to the US Supreme Court, who have held that not they are people whose rights are equal to that of a natural born person.

This includes the right to free speech, and gee, the same Supreme Court held that money talks, literally. Money is speech. Speech is free for people. Companies being people can spend what they like on political campaigns. And so the US continues its descent into plutocracy.

Here things are not quite so bad. Companies are not yet equated as being the same as thee and me. They have many attributes of legal personhood, and that’s good and right to allow them to conduct business. They can sue and be sued, they can be held to account in a court of law, and they can engage in contractual engagements. They have rights.