Corporations fall into two types, public and private and what distinguishes those two types is a public IPO stock offering.  Now if our government entities all allowed public ownership, that would seem reasonable, being a public entity – or so we have been led to believe.  BUT none of these entities are public.  They are all private corporations!

Another strange thing is that corporations fall under the federal “commerce clause” of the constitution which gives our government the ability to “regulate commerce”.  If corporations are all commercial entities, who then is “regulating” them if they are the government?

For example, Microsoft is a “Deleware” corporation.  This means that they are chartered under the laws of the state of Deleware BUT… Deleware IS a corporation itself, or at least it’s Supreme Court is. (?)  Who is the Supreme Court of  “Deleware” chartered under?  Or is Deleware some strange exception to the rule?

We could not easily find out as a subscription to Dunn and Bradstreet runs about $2000/year which will tell you who chartered the corporation in quesiton.

Our collective “civics” education is insufficient for even many lawyers to answer these puzzling questions and so we will not, at this time, pretend to know what this strange situation ultimately implies nor do we currently have the bandwidth to investigatge the history and evolution of this strange form of “governance”.

Jus sayin… seems like we have a fox DBA (Doing Business As) a chicken in the henhouse.

It appears from here that all this relates to proper fiscal oversight by congress.  Maybe there is “nothing to see here” but still, this smells fishy.

I’t love to see the corporate books of the entities that govern me.