Sauvie Island

I’m running because I want America to be one person, one vote – not one dollar, one vote. I’m running because I see so many flesh-and-blood people hurt and neglected by GOP policies favoring corporate “people.” Corporations are all about quarterly returns and nothing about the future of our children, our land, or our water. Economists call those futures externalities – beyond the corporate cost/benefit analysis that makes the next generation not even worth a dime of today’s money. That’s why we need to tax, regulate, and penalize corporations – to change their calculations.

Corporations are a legal fiction that privatize the gains and socialize the losses – polluting water, heating the air, and ignoring the long-term consequences of everything via net present value calculations. In a completely free market, corporations wouldn’t even exist. They must be regulated. The freedom we grant them must be balanced with responsibilities by our government, as has been done so with the NEXT Renewable Fuels refinery at Port Westward.