Hey Doug, “Corporations” in the simplest sense are just groups of people acting together (usually towards shared goals). This is not bad or evil in and of itself. “Corporatism” as I would define it is the partnership/collusion between some of these groups and the state.
I do not believe we can or should stop cooperation between people, and placing limits on which actions cooperating groups are allowed to take is just as wrong as placing those restrictions on the people themselves.
There are many, many things wrong with the way we treat corporations here today, but this usually has to do with the privilege granted to many to be free from law and regulation that individuals and other groups of individuals who are not in partnership with the state are bound by.
*Edited to fix a typo.
Shouldn't then these individuals contribute out of their earning from these corporations rather than the Corporations themselves?
The Supreme Court rulings always make for very entertaining reading, on another case MARCUS A. WELLONS v. HILTON HALL, WARDEN (death row case they ruled for the defendant) due to:
Only after the trial did defense counsel learn that there had been unreported exparte contacts between the jury and the judge, that jurors and a bailiff had planned a reunion, and that "either during or immediately following the penalty phase, some jury members gave the trial judge chocolate shaped as male genitalia and the bailiff chocolate shaped as female breasts," 554 F. 3d 923, 930 (CA11 2009).
The supreme court site was down for me but here is the cached page http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:W5J1m2YCS_AJ:www.suprem...
