To: TomB
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.
19 posted on
01/22/2002 3:56:26 PM PST by
parsifal
To: parsifal
Perhaps the point escapes you, but it is a fact that the government coerces me into giving them money which they then decide to distribute to others. If a company is paying its execs unnecessarily high salaries that are out of line with other companies in the same line of business, I can elect to make a stink a the shareholders meeting, sell my stock, or buy from another company. One is a choice, one isn't.
However, you ignored my initial point. If "fairness" is so important to the AFL-CIO, why does John Sweeney, Richard Trumka, et.al. make so much more money that the people they represent?
25 posted on
01/22/2002 4:13:02 PM PST by
TomB
To: parsifal
You are missing a major point. CEO's get the big bucks because they work very hard for it. They have many peoples jobs in their hands, and that kind of responsibility need to be compensated. With your kind of thinking, a General in the Army and the buck private would be paid the same. I don't think the military would be very effective like that.
Naa, I won't check it, either.
27 posted on
01/22/2002 4:14:32 PM PST by
Lokibob
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