A corporation is a legal “person,” just like you. Maybe even better. Exhibit A is a bill passed last week by the Missouri House of Representatives:
— It allows utility companies to avoid complying with local zoning laws or with past court decisions that went against them.
— It permits a new surcharge on your gas bill to cover something that’s supposedly already figured into utility rates.
— And it allows those surcharges — for fuel costs, environmental compliance, infrastructure improvement and other expenses that are supposed to be built into rates — to stay on your bill for a longer time before utilities must file a full-blown rate case to explain and justify their entire financial picture.
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