SECTION IX: CORPORATE AND INDUSTRY RESPONSIBILITIES

A. Corporate Ethics

1. Corporations shall be prohibited from lobbying or hiring lobbyists to influence legislation, regulation, federal agencies, federal agents, or elected representatives.

2. Corporations shall be fully accountable and bear full financial responsibility for their actions and impact on human health and the environment, with no limitation on corporate and individual liability.

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

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

5. It shall be a crime, with penalties of life in prison without parole, for a corporation’s Chief Executive Officer, other officer or director, or the head (or other officer) of a regulatory agency to, with prior knowledge, allow a product that causes significant harm or illness to humans or significant injury to the environment to enter the market.

6. Corporate criminals shall be permanently barred from doing business with the federal government.

7. U.S. companies shall not subcontract domestic service obligations to offshore subcontractors without informing their customers and obtaining their approval.
 

8. Computerized phone answering systems shall be prohibited. Any corporation conducting business in the United States 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 on behalf of U.S. companies.
 

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. Financial records of corporations or government contractors paid in whole or in part by tax dollars shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIA transparency shall apply only to work done under government contract. Any company with a federal contract needs to be subject to FOIA as if it were a government agency.

B. Financial

1. U.S. corporations shall be forbidden from transferring profits to offshore or foreign 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 U.S., be registered in the U.S., and pay appropriate Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and other taxes. Government contracts shall not be awarded to any company with headquarters outside the U.S. or its protectorates.