Sotomayor challenges corporate personhood
Sotomayor Issues Challenge to Centuries of Corporate Law
http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=4960
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END CORPORATE "PERSONHOOD"
http://www.change.org/ideas/view_idea/end_corporate_personhood

Group challenges corporate personhood in Supreme Court
http://elitestv.com/pub/2009/08/group-challenges-corporate-personhood-in-supreme-court

Sorry, could not get "Sotomeyer" to come up. Don't understand why. There must be some reason. Will have to do without.

Can delete duplicates. Sorry 'bout that. BMT

Last I knew the minimum estate subject to taxation was $3,000,000.

There are so many ways around even this tax that the very very rich have no difficulty dodging it (various types of trusts, multiple common stock voting classes -- eg, Ford -- sweetheart intercorporate ties, and much else).

At root, the Estate Tax was enacted to prevent the evolution of a super-rich elite class.  In this it has failed from its inception, due to the above mentioned evasive (but legal) tactics any high priced Estate Planner is well aware of.

One thing not considered is that corporations, as recognized by the courts as "legal persons", NEVER are subjected to any similar tax.  Essentially, a corporation "lives" *forever*, and no similar tax is ever due, thereby enabling unlimited financial growth.  When you have time check out how much Income Tax corporations contribute as a percentage of total Income Tax collected in the USA each year.  Last statistic I saw was about 17%.

Make of it what you will.

Source:  The Progress Report   Oct. 6, 2009

RADICAL RIGHT -- OIL TYCOON AND AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY PUSHING FOR TEA PARTIES TO PROTEST ESTATE TAX: The estate tax, a duty on the transfer of a deceased person's property and asset, is currently set to vanish in 2010 and come back in 2011 with a 55 percent rate on estates over $1 million -- a Bush-era gimmick designed to push Congress to eliminate the tax altogether rather than reinstating it after a tax-free year. Many in Congress are not falling for the gimmick and are working to make sure an estate tax stays in place in 2010. Now, libertarian oil-tycoon David Koch is enlisting the help of corporate front-group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) to slow down congressional action on taxes long enough for the estate tax to be eliminated. As the Washington Independent's David Weigel reported, Koch appeared at AFP's annual "Defending the American Dream" summit and urged its activists to campaign against an extension of the estate tax. "If we run out the clock," AFP Policy Director Phil Kerpen told attendees, "the estate tax is gone in 2010, and it would be tricky for Democrats to try and bring it back." Despite Koch's invocation that ending the estate tax would be part of a "mass movement...of hundreds of thousands of American citizens from all walks of life standing up and fighting for the economic freedoms that made our nation the most prosperous society in history," the fact is that 99.8 percent of estates owe no tax at all. Rather, the Koch-driven movement is, as the Wonk Room's Pat Garofalo writes, fighting for "needlessly giving millionaire families (like the Koch family) billions in tax breaks, despite the country's budget situation."

That should help

Also, Thom Hartmann wrote a book on the deliberate misconception of corporate entitlement to rights of natural persons: Unequal Protection.

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