Free Speech for Corporations

Can a corporation "speak" with one voice for all of its employees and all of its shareholders? The latest Supreme Court decision raises not just a few questions, assuming such an entity as corporation has "speech." What if a corporation "speaks" with donations of money in support of a cause or candidate that some of its employees or shareholders do not support? Is that an infringement of their free speech rights? Should they be compensated by that corporation for the infringement? Economist Robert Reich offers an interesting proposal to protect at least the shareholders.

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