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At 5:02 PM -0800 12/24/97, Steve Schear wrote:
If you would be so kind as to a) specify that supreme court ruling, and b) identify an online resource where I can obtain the text of that decision, so that I can 1) confirm or deny your allegation, and 2) debate your position intelligently, I would greatly appreciate it.
It has to do with the application of laws, especially Federal, to corporations. Recall that Corporations are legal fictions and, unlike individuals, are not constitutionally vested with inaliable rights. They have been affirmed some rights, including free speech but the SC, but generally with more limitations.
Okay, I'll avoid that since I have never read a scrap of corporational law.
What if I run a business out of my house? What if I don't need employees (such that I could affort to hire a couple of people, or nobody at all)? If I hire someone who is white because I don't want to hire someone is black, then it is not a loss that is felt within the black community, since I don't *need* to hire anybody in the first place.
Use of your property, as long as its private, were vested with many
constitutional rights (many of which now been eroded by decades of SC 'interpretation'). However, once you operate a business upon a property (evidenced by the issuance of a business license) it becomes a 'public convenience' which can (and often is) heavily regulated and restricted.
So, operate w/o a business license and incorporation and keep your rights but risk prosection for tax evasion, or license your business and lose many of those consititional protections you covet. Catch-22.
Just out fo curiosity -- if I were to take my taxes out like I were operating a business out of my house without declaring I am as such, and then not take the "excess" tax money back as a return, would the Fed have any grounds for suit of fraud, since I had paid all the taxes of a business properly? What I'm wondering is if the fraud charge would be because I haden't paid the proper taxes or not.
I find it very interesting that liberal activists in California, who rabidly insist that racism is wrong, that we must have racial dialogues, that we should all "just get allong," used the court system to fight Proposition 209, which ends affirmative action in that state. The people voted their will, and the activists took to the courts to override the people's will -- in effect, saying that the California voting public is just a bunch of idiots.
They simply showed their true 'liberal' idiological colors. What they really seek isn't guarantees of equal opportunity but equal outcomes under law, what Robert Bork calls Radical Egalitarianism in his recent book, "Slouching Towards Gamorah."
I haven't seen or read the book. However, it would seem to me that equal opertunity and equal outcome aren't one and the same. While you are making it possible for folks who wouldn't normally hit the middle income road to do so, you are then also restraining the brighter bulbs from taking off like NASA rockets (and the analogy is correct, since being a genius doesn't guarantee success). Best wishes and fresh-roasted peanut taste, The Sheriff. -- ***<REPLY TO: sheriff@speakeasy.org>*** - --- As kinky as it sounds, finger me to see my PGP key and confirm the signature attached to this message. - --- Any and all SPAM will be met with immediate prosecutory efforts. Solicitations are NOT welcome here! - --- ----BEGIN INFLAMATORY BLOCK---- Version: 160 (IQ) Comments: Definitely one of their greatest misses. Reporter: "Do you know what Public Enemy is?" - --- Citizen: "Public enemy?" [long pause] "Probably somebody in office." -----END INFLAMATORY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNKXNjABMw4+NR29ZAQGO8wf7Bic4Y5v74dP4uCowXyqT68BkHlhU1/+p hs4rD7w8D27TJkIep9kBLCZfvPo0i3cGqMN6NluAHJ4auf+TjezVCe4cheTXyZCJ K/aoyZHgrmV1vH/wHHvbODc8Aq5kVzrcCAnfPF9T4j/2gS3pbMp+VALlix/Cp53u TRpqLNCTlFnwiZVO8h82hF/gnNiNxmHQ7UoPG1WJYXUSiDTmRjEhM0RnmDdThaEh W1Yh0O1Xpl6F6B13ZNTby3PTDh2FzllscFmPtWtxl4iCWeHERHL6f4Jpb/9uVrgB N7eT1veC7fkSMFJaKGNT73GEBzxz5gphjmVLPsr8QKdVjVfS20eyRw== =B4z0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----