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Voters want to tax outrageous CEO pay. Are lawmakers listening?
The Hill ^ | 05/17/2024 | SARAH ANDERSON

Posted on 05/17/2024 9:26:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

For decades now, I’ve been conducting my own informal survey of American views about CEO pay.

Whenever family, friends, or random strangers ask about my job, I tell them it involves research on executive compensation. Last year, for example, I found that CEOs of America’s 100 largest low-wage employers made, on average, over 600 times what their median workers made — and often thousands of times more.

Invariably, people see red when I share these numbers. And they often have choice words about the unfairness of it all.

A new poll reinforces my informal findings: Americans across the political spectrum are fed up with overpaid CEOs — and want something done about it.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ceo; pay; sarahanderson; tax; voters
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

What if the company IS a state agency and the CEO makes considerably more than the US President? Asking for a friend.


41 posted on 05/18/2024 8:18:54 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So these morons don’t believe that CEOs already pay taxes on their (deserved or undeserved) income?


42 posted on 05/21/2024 7:49:42 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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