Corporations should be outlawed. They have harmed our society in far more ways than they have helped it. After all, we have corporations to thank for all of the sweatshops, old-boy networks, and...

Corporations should be outlawed. They have harmed our society in far more ways than they have helped it. After all, we have corporations to thank for all of the sweatshops, old-boy networks, and underpaid workers. And let’s not forget about the pollution. It’s always those big chemical corporations and industrial plantsthat are filling the air we breathe and the water we drink with pollutants. It’s a miracle that our life expectancy is greater than 50 years! Just look at what corporations today do. They put poisonous products on the market and then use million-dollar marketing schemes to trick the public into buying them. Take cigarettes, for example. For decades, the big tobacco corporations have been lying to the public and paying off our government officials. They’ve invested millions in covering up the fact that cigarettes kill. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans have died because of the lengths to which these corporations have gone just to make money. Additionally, corporations don’t know how to treat their workers. A recent survey showed that workers at corporations were five times as unhappy as were sole proprietors. Another study demonstrated that 87 percent of on-the-job accidents happened to people who worked at corporations. If we’d just get rid of these corporations, Americans would be much safer at work. We don’t have these kinds of problems with partnerships or sole proprietorships. When’s the last time you heard of a small “mom and pop”store that severely polluted the environment or killed people with its products? Furthermore, the capitalist ideas that our economy is built upon do not support corporations. Capitalism is based upon the idea that all competing businesses will be “mom and pop”stores. Even the founder of capitalism stated that he didn’t trust businessmen and that in order for his ideas to work, the businesses would have to be small. Our founding fathers would probably roll over in their graves if they knew that our country is being run by these large corporations. It’s time that we return to the ideas on which our economy is based. All businesses should be either sole proprietorships or partnerships. The time has come for corporations to join the ranks of the dinosaurs.

 1. What reasons does the author give for his conclusion?

 2. What important information is omitted from the author’s reasoning?

3. Please create some arguments in opposition to the ones the author sets out in the essay.