SECTION IX: CORPORATE AND INDUSTRY RESPONSIBILITIES

A. Corporate Ethics
Corporations shall do business in an ethical manner. They shall be financially responsible for their actions, not pollute the environment, and guarantee their products are as represented.

1. Absent a total ban on lobbying, corporations shall be prohibited from lobbying or hiring lobbyists to influence legislation, regulation, federal agencies, federal agents, or elected representatives.

2. Corporations and industries shall be fully financially responsible for their actions and impact on health and the environment, with no limitation on their liability.

3. Corporations shall guarantee their products are as represented in their advertising and marketing materials.

4. Corporations shall guarantee their products are not toxic nor contain toxic chemicals or components.

5. It shall be a crime, with penalties of life in prison without the possibility of parole, for a corporation's Chief Executive, other officer, any director, or the head of any regulatory agency with prior knowledge, to allow a product on the market that causes disease, illness, or death in humans or harms the environment..

6. Corporate criminals shall be barred from federal contracting.

7. U.S. companies shall not subcontract domestic contractual service obligations or send their work to offshore subcontractors without advising their customers and obtaining approval.

8. Computer phone answering systems shall be prohibited. Corporations shall hire U.S. citizens residing in the United States to answer phones, and shall be prohibited from hiring people in other countries to answer phones.

9. Corporations shall pay consumers twice the minimum wage for wait times on the telephone exceeding five minutes, and for time lost by consumers on missed service appointments.

10. Corporations or government contractors paid in whole or in part by tax dollars shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA shall apply only to work done under contract to the government.

B. Financial
Corporations shall be prohibited from using abusive tax shelters.

1. Corporations shall be prohibited from using abusive tax shelters. U.S. Corporations will be forbidden from transferring profits to off-shore or out-of-the-country subsidiaries for the purpose of avoiding payment of taxes.

2. Corporate tax records shall be made public.

3. Any foreign company with more than $20 million in sales a year in the U.S. shall form a domestic corporation and be subject to all of the rules, regulations, and taxation of U.S. companies.

4. U.S. companies shall not exploit foreign labor.

5. Any corporation with government contracts must have its headquarters and a majority of its employees and corporate officers located in the United States, be registered in the United States, and pay appropriate Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and other taxes. Government contracts shall not be awarded to any company with headquarters outside the United States or its protectorates.