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'HARD PASS'! Elizabeth Warren's 'plan to save capitalism' smells like the HOTTEST of hot garbage

You know, we were just thinking to ourselves that what America needs more of is really God-awful ideas. Right on cue, here comes Elizabeth Warren:

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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1029724659422572544

More from Matt Yglesias at Vox:

Instead of advocating for expensive new social programs like free college or health care, she’s introducing a bill Wednesday, the Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the middle class — without costing a dime.

The conceit tying together Warren’s ideas is that if corporations are going to have the legal rights of persons, they should be expected to act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of the social contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole obligation is profitability — as is currently conventional in American business thinking.

Warren wants to create an Office of United States Corporations inside the Department of Commerce and require any corporation with revenue over $1 billion — only a few thousand companies, but a large share of overall employment and economic activity — to obtain a federal charter of corporate citizenship.

The charter tells company directors to consider the interests of all relevant stakeholders — shareholders, but also customers, employees, and the communities in which the company operates — when making decisions. That could concretely shift the outcome of some shareholder lawsuits but is aimed more broadly at shifting American business culture out of its current shareholders-first framework and back toward something more like the broad ethic of social responsibility that took hold during WWII and continued for several decades.

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Because getting the government involved in businesses is always such a good idea.

Seems like a pretty good rule of thumb.

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Exactly.

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Last word to Elizabeth Warren herself:

Nailed it.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.

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