You own this country and everything in it. The old man thought for a moment. Next, I bought into the urban renewal movement. Last year, I financed the pioneer railway. This year, I will buy myself a new pair of socks.
American corporations have a lot more than the old man in the story.
Corporations, like the government, have no money at all. Their shareholders do. It should be for every individual to decide whether to spend his money on new socks for himself, or give it away to the needy. In America, those who gave less to themselves, so they could give to others, have always been accorded special respect. But their inspiration came from the Scriptures, not from an Executive Branch with computers to monitor compliance.