Please hear me out before reacting emotionally or brushing me off. You are entitled to your opinion and I'm not stealing it away from you.

Here's my take.

The theory about the US being a for-profit corporation has been circulated on telegram and other platforms since 2020 and has recently picked up support on GAW. It is, however, an even older theory.

The "sovereign citizen" movement has been making this claim for a long time, it is in fact where it originated. It is by far not the only claim that is being made by the self-proclaimed sovereign citizens. They believe that by writing their name on a piece of paper and sending it along with $ 150 to the "postmaster general" they become "sovereign" in the eyes of the law and are then permitted to drive without a license & stop paying taxes, amongst other similarly unfounded beliefs. Their theories are almost always accompanied by a confusing & mistaken explanation about Maritime law, lower- and upper case lettering on government IDs and sometimes "quantum grammar" as well as "Nesara / Gesara".

Conspiracy theory forums have known about and debunked these claims many times over but they sound so good that many people just want them to be true despite the abundant contradictory facts.

I invite you to do your own research by looking into the "sovereign citizen movement" & researching what the term "corporation" truly means in certain legal documents.

For example in this US code about debt collection:

(15)“United States” means— (A)a Federal corporation; (B)an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C)an instrumentality of the United States. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002

There are also countless "debunks" about this topic including the 1871 Act that are well researched.

TLDR; In my opinion, we (people) are mostly ignorant when it comes to legalese and this misunderstanding of the term "corporation" has led to this particular conspiracy theory; sovereign citizen movement perpetuates it.