Ohio miners forced to attend Romney rally without pay...

[kandrathe]

The minute that they do so with the company letterhead, and the company checks, I have a SERIOUS problem with it.

I guess the problem, as described by recent SCOTUS briefs, is that free speech and association are FREE. The government can't censor the free speech rights of a corporation, because a corporation is just a bunch of people freely associating. If the board, ergo majority of stockholders, are OK with the speech, then what right does the government have in censoring the speech? Most importantly when that speech is political, because in a tyrannical system political speech would be the first type of speech to be censored. Can any group express their political viewpoints, such as "The Catholic Church of America", or "The Teamster's Union"? If they can have a collective opinion, then why censor any other organization (even if their motives are profit driven)?

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But this is already happening kandrathe. At least in the west. That why professions like lawyers, professional athletes and boy bands are created. We make so much wealth (among others by taking it from the rest of the world) that we can permit it to create all kinds of useless jobs.

Ah, the 1%. Possibly then we could just make it more fair by having a government run lottery, where the winner is rewarded with an obscene amount of cash, but also taxed at a 99% rate. Thus, funding the next lucky winner.