[TomB]

Well I can't make you do it. But I sure bet you would if it was a "Calculate Your Welfare Check" spot on a conservative website. (There! Have I shamed you into it yet?) parsy.

I'm not sure I understand the connection between the pay of a CEO and someone's welfare check. But then again, I'm sure you don't either.

[parsifal]

I am referring, of course, to the well-known pro-business prejudice of most freepers. In the eyes of most freepers, the rich/haves can do little or no wrong, whereas the poor/have nots, well, who cares about poor/have nots. Let them eat cake.

But still, methinks thou dost protest too much. The calculation starts with your 1996 income and shows you what it would be if you got raises the way CEOs do. How could any rationally cuious person NOT want to know this???Frankly, since so many freepers have this great interest about the impact of taxes on prices, I am amazed by the lack of concern about how CEO salaries affect prices and the workforce. parsy.