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Peter A

In article >,
says...
> >> It is my experience that libertarians, more than others,
> >> often think their belief systems have force of law, if only
> >> courts behaved correctly. i.e. they genuinely think gun control
> >> is illegal, that persons are not required to pay income tax, etc.
> >> There's a long list of such nonsense. Not prosecuting corporations
> >> is a new one (to me), but it sounds like more of the same.
> >>
>
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I think that getting rid of criminal prosecution of corporations might
be a good idea - if, and it's a big if, it could be ensured that the
personal liability for criminal acts was focused on the right people.
After all, if a corp is found guilty of a crime what happens - a fine at
most. You can't send a corp to jail! Who loses? The shareholders, who
usually had no knowledge of or ability to control the illegal activity.
But if responsibility for a corporate criminal act could be put on the
top executives who run the company, and it was them going to jail and
paying fines, then things might well be different.

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Peter Aitken
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