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To: bentway who wrote (584432)	9/5/2010 10:43:02 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572630

Supposedly, this country is run BY and FOR the citizens. And without a doubt the companies actions benefits some citizens. It shouldn't have to prove general benefit in order to continue to operate any more than you should have to prove general benefit in order for you to carry out your normal daily activities, or start or join some political, social, religious, scientific, etc., group or organization. If the burden of proof was on either side of the coin here, I'd say its on those who want to impose restrictions on other people's freedom, including restrictions on how they can operate in concert such as through a corporation. They should have to prove net harm, and sufficient net harm to be greater than the harm involved in restricting or eliminating specific corporations (the relatively direct practical harm, the disincentives and distorted incentives that such an action would create for other corporations, and the harm inherent in the loss of freedom entailed by such an action, and even by giving that power to the government in the first place) But it is in fact true that corporations as a whole, and most of the time as individual corporations, benefit the general public.