Statements Related to Executives of US corporations are legally required to maximize their corporation's profits

• Illegal music sharing creates greater profits for the recording industry and artists than would exist without illegal music sharing. (1+/0- justifications)
• Goldman Sachs replaces bonuses for its top 30 executives with 5-year stock options (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve profits for 2009 are only 0.1% (1/10 of one percent) of its bailout promises (3+/0- justifications)
• The world population subsidizes 1/3 of the profits of the world's biggest companies (1+/0- justifications)
• Economic rent is defined as "the payment to a factor of production in excess of what is required to keep that factor in its present use" (1+/0- justifications)
• US corporations have a right to free speech (1+/0- justifications)
• Several Bush II executives conspired to commit torture (1+/0- justifications)
• Apple required members of the open-source KHTML project to sign non-disclosure agreements before viewing code Apple contributed to the project via its WebKit fork (1+/0- justifications)
• General Electric, a New York corporation, paid $0 in taxes to the U.S. but had world-wide profits of $10.8 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• Corporations purposefully generate doubt as to their business's harmful effects (1+/0- justifications)
• Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) thinks that the US government should apologize to British Petroleum for asking the company to create a trust fund of less than one year's profits to restore the Gulf ecosystem from the oil spill they caused. (5+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for 2008, 2007, and 2006 were $25.6 billion, $18.4 billion, and $22.2 billion, respectively. (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for 2009 were $14 billion. (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's profits for the first quarter of 2010 were $6.1 billion, more than double their first quarter profits from 2009 ($2.6 billion) (1+/0- justifications)
• British Petroleum's 2010 profits were on track to be double their 2009 profits, or $28 billion (1+/0- justifications)
• Supply-side economics does not apply generally to U.S. corporations (4+/0- justifications)
• Germans legally excluded ancestors of immigrants from German citizenship (1+/0- justifications)
• The U.S. dollar is legally required to be represented in thousandths (1+/0- justifications)
• Private businesses in the U.S. are not legally required to accept cash as payment (1+/0- justifications)
• Only the Board of Directors of a U.S. corporation can make a statement for that corporation (1+/1- justifications)
• In a sample of 43K corporations, 147 were found to control 40% of the whole (1+/0- justifications)
• The skillset required for success in organic chemistry is a subset of the skills required for success as a medical doctor (1+/0- justifications)
• Corporations are legally required to maximize profit (1+/0- justifications)
• Nearly all Super PAC funding comes from just 58 wealthy individuals or corporations (1+/0- justifications)
• In the U.S. a partnership is formed any time two or more persons act together to conduct business and share any profits (1+/0- justifications)