If I had my way corporations would pay 0% income tax. Corporations that are forced to pay high taxes take their operations abroad and with them jobs Americans need. In the end, corporations are owned by investors (you and I either directly or through our retirement funds) who in turn pay taxes on the dividends. Why should the government get two dips into the same money? To those who say the corporations wield too much power, why should they or unions have the same right to free speech that individuals do? In fact, many are owned or heavily influenced by foreign investors who I believe are forbidden to make campaign contributions. Corporations and unions of themselves are not people and not protected by the Bill of Rights. In my mind they have no claim on being able to influence elections through financial contributions to candidates. (On the other hand I would not restrict their ability to publicize their positions ■ just not to make campaign contributions.) I realize it is much more complicated than that, but basically, I can■t understand their being treated the same as the humans that the Bill of Rights was created for.