Cause they have more money than we do.
Plain and simple.

Thanks for that. Some people understand the "How's" of this screwed up world without ever wondering the "Why's" of how it came to be. Things have been going downhill for a very long time. I really don't know how some of these larger figures in the worlds demise can live with themselves. I guess millions of dollars and being treated like royalty for their crimes can clear ones conscience easily enough.

Corporations can live forever. People die. Corporations are not people and any such structure should have to show how it is in the public's good. The only real purpose for such structures should be to build roads or bridges and such. If corporations want the same rights as people, they should be forced to expire after a certain amount of random years, just like real people.

Corporations hold a bigger influence on production and capital so thus are seen as more important by bourgeois governments. Simple as really, the more influence you have on the economic power of the state, the more power granted to you by the state as it relies on your power much more. This isn't including the corruption and such that goes with it.

Two hundred years of judicial precedent has solidified the claim that a corporation is a person. So strongly is this assertion protected that in the very first sentence of Title 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 of the United States Code, it is stated, “…the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals…”. This false analogy is dangerous and must be curtailed. A corporation is not a person because unlike people they possess only a singular motivation, they cannot be held accountable for their actions to the measure a person may and the concept is antithetical to the idea of a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The conceit that a corporation exists for the singular purpose of maximizing profit has been codified in 1919 by the majority opinion of the Michigan Supreme Court case in Dodge v Ford Motor Company, in which the opinion states;

A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the nondistribution of profits among shareholders in order to devote them to other purposes.

Humans in contrast are motivated not by a singular end but rather by a host of conflicting desires. The philosopher David Hume eloquently encapsulated the human condition when he wrote, “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”. Corporations are not slaves to passions. Quite the opposite is true because they possess a Terminator-esque focus on the almighty profit.

When we are children an important developmental milestone is when we become aware that our actions have consequences. If I hit my little sister, I will be punished. This is an important lesson as it teaches us that rules for behavior exist within the universe and that we must conform to said rules or suffer the consequences. Individuals that lack the ability to learn this truth are considered deficient, either as a sociopath or simply mad. Those consequences in the form of punishment can be varied and tailored to the act of disobedience. One might be sent to their room without supper, or excommunicated from a community, or forced to endure heavy labor, or sentenced to life in prison, or executed. The multitude of various punishments is only limited to the collective imagination of the entire human race. But how exactly does one punish a person when that a person doesn’t exist except as a legal construct? Fines might be levied or the corporation might be dissolved, but it is without question that a corporation cannot be held to account for its actions to the degree that a human being can.

Ignoring the fact that a corporation cannot “learn” anything, the absence of wide ranging consequences to actions that are deemed socially wrong prevents a corporation from learning one of the most central concepts that make a person a person. Even if a corporation was magically given an avatar of flesh and bone, but still possessed the societal traits of the corporation, it would be classified not as a person but rather as some freakish automaton.

Regardless of the wisdom of considering a corporation as a person, the fact remains that currently a corporation is legally considered a person and granted all of the rights and privileges that entails. This is not a trivial matter, as the very foundation of our republic is based upon the concept that the government is an instrument, “of the people, by the people and for the people,” to protect the rights of individuals to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These qualities are alien to a legal construct and it is antithetical to the very idea espoused in the Declaration of Independence by placing it under the same legal protection as human beings. Thomas Jefferson was so concerned about the rise of an aristocracy of corporations that he wrote in a letter dated 1816, “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country”.

A corporation is not a person and it is important that we recognize this fact. The longer we participate in this charade the greater damage we inflict upon the classically liberal beliefs such a freedom, democracy and the rights of the individual over the tyranny of the majority. The corporatocracies imagined by William Gibson have the potential to leap from the pages of fiction into reality.

F After reading up on this guy they should have added charges to Nixon impeachment as well for appointing him the the Supreme Court.

Corporations have more rights, as long as we the people allowed to happen, our government was bought out by corporate America a long time ago, they have the power because their whores in congress give them that power along with the bought president, remember they get to make laws, that we the citizens has to abide by but the elites in charge do not.

Again all this is happening because we the people allow it to happen.