Multinationals and big tech, the big lobbies that evade taxes (and not only)

Multinationals treated like people. Here is a breakdown of rights, privileges and legal implications

The following title gave me the inspiration to write this article: Without dividends, no taxes: the “trick” of big tech Published on Affaritaliani.it (get the article here). It is well known that large companies or corporations act as they want. It all began in 1868 in the USA with the XIV (fourteenth) amendment, intended to give equal rights to the black population (now African-Americans). What cause did the lawyers, who were very fierce at that time, advance? The Corporation is a person, but with a mountain of distinctions and privileges, such as those of “not paying” taxes and more that people don’t have? Not being a historian or a jurist, I made use of all the sources on the internet, then I sent a series of questions to CHATGPT and here are the relevant answers:

Why do corporations have the same rights as natural persons in the USA? Indeed, in the United States, corporations enjoy the same constitutional protections as human beings. This happened thanks to a series of key Supreme Court decisions and a controversial legal concept known as corporate personhood.

Is it possible to overturn this concept? The revision or overturning of the concept of “corporate personhood” in the United States is a complex and controversial topic. While some people argue that it should be reviewed, others believe it is critical to the functioning of businesses and the economy.

Could the fact that Corporations cannot fulfill corporate obligations or vote be limiting? Indeed, the inability of corporations to fulfill military obligations or vote is an important feature that distinguishes legal entities from natural persons. In summary, while corporations cannot fulfill military obligations or vote, they have other means to participate in society and influence the political process. This balance is important to ensure harmonious coexistence between natural persons and legal entities.

Set up like this, it could then be that the ordinary citizen also has legal personality. Indeed, legal personality is a concept that concerns both natural persons and legal persons.

To conclude that you are a physical American citizen and have to fight in a war or go to a voting booth to vote or be part of a popular jury you are compared to a legal entity, but which in reality is abstract. You raise an interesting point! The distinction between natural persons and legal entities is fundamental in law and society.

Perhaps one of the reasons for seeing citizens’ rights recognized with respect to corporations is given by the fact that the individual citizen is subject to the death penalty for serious crimes, while the legal person, even in the face of serious crimes perpetrated on people, cannot be sentenced to death. You raise an interesting point. The distinction between natural persons (citizens) and legal persons (legal entities such as corporations) is complex and has significant implications.

With this last answer he remains substantial doubt that a Corporation is identifiable as a personthen the question is why not bring this doubt to the Supreme Court? Maybe we will discover that the powerful Corporations, in order to be identified as a human being, manage to abolish the death penalty? If you want a little more information I’ll point out the documentary The Corporation _ 1 – 2 visible on Youtube.