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To: TimF who wrote (23816)	10/31/2007 1:03:34 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: " Corporations are obviously things that can live for an indefinite period. There is no reason for them to have expirations dates. You say you don't have a problem with them having a separate legal identity, and in the context of my reply it seems like you don't have a problem with limited liability for shareholders. So what exactly are you against?" Looks like you latched onto the wrong halk of the legal presumption (when assuming or guessing 'what I had a problem with'). Look to your own words from above: Corporations are obviously things that can live for an indefinite period. It's true... they are 'things'.... (not 'human beings'). But --- as I said --- the LEGAL PRESUMPTION is that they are 'people (with infinite lifespan)'. By considering an organization to be a legal human being... that organization then inherits a whole panoply of legal rights and privileges. (Right against search and seizure... habeas corpus, etc., etc., etc.) Obviously I have no problem with the 'infinite life' presumption, but with the extension of HUMAN PERSONHOOD. (That was why I said that I'd be HAPPY to trade a zero rate of tax on corporations... in exchange for their legal presumption of human personhood.)