At some point I may read the entire transcript and get into it a little more, but today I just want to touch on the newest Supreme Court Ruling.
On January 21st the Surpreme court overturned a ban on corporate spending on political campaigns.
If you want to know more, there are plenty of sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html. I'm of course interested in the political/governmental effects, short-term and long-tem, and whether this was a prudent decision, but that's for the mass media to get into.
Instead, I'm wondering what it will do to the corporations themselves and their employees.
- If the company you worked for gave millions of dollars to a party you don't support, would you quit? Would you speak up?
- Would you pass on a job at a company that gives to a party you don't support?
- Would you stop buying products/using services made by a company that gives to a party that you don't support?
- Would you sell off your stock options?
- Can the act of a company giving to a political party set the company up for workplace discrimination lawsuits? ('I support the other party and that's why I can't get promoted...')
- If corporations are involved more in the political process, what will it mean for Unemployment Insurance? Cobra? Unions?
- Corporations obviously have a huge interest in health insurance costs. How will that effect all this talk of nationalized health insurance?
- Can non-profit companies give money to political campaigns?
- How does the giving of money to a political campaign effect corporation profit sharing? stock dividends? Who really donates to the campaign? the company or its workers or its shareholders?
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