In short, the Supreme Court ruled today that proprietors of corporations are entitled to more freedoms than non-proprietors.
Does anybody remember the three-fifths compromise?
When considering this case, did the Supreme Court consider Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment? It states:
Representatives shall be apportioned …counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed…
A corporation is now a “whole person” under this interpretation. It is owned by “whole persons” who are already guaranteed representation, making them count more than once. This is literally a revival of the three-fifths compromise, as some are entitled to more representation than others. It’s unjust and tyrannical.
One last thing, for those who would argue that corporate personhood is fair because corporations are taxed: taxation does not a person make. I’d actually argue that double taxation should not exist for this same reason; as corporations are collective property of real people, those people should pay personal taxes on their capital gains instead of the corporate “entity” being taxed instead. This preserves the concepts of “no taxation without representation” and “one person, one vote” equally.