““Checked the tax code,” wrote a friend who’s engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. “Unfortunately, marrying [my fiancee] does not entitle me to a tax inversion like the big US companies are getting. Thanks for nothing IRS.”

“That got me thinking. Maybe we’ve been looking at this whole corporations-are-people-too foofaraw the wrong way.

“Critics complained when the Supreme Court granted companies rights to freedom of speech and religion under the legal fiction that corporations are people.

“But perhaps this precedent is good news for flesh-and-blood people like you and me (a.k.a. People Classic™).”

- Read more at: WashingtonPost.com