YES! CEO's shouldn’t make 300 times what average workers do.
90%
NO! There shouldn’t be a limit on what someone can earn.
10%
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I would add that anyone who earns $ through their own effort like artists, athletes, writers etc should be allowed to earn all they can while they can as their skills are limited by the market place which limits their earnings.
CEO's, politicians and other executives can give themselves raises irregardless of how well they perform so their "earnings" should be limited to a % of what their employees are paid, low wage employees means less pay for the CEO. That might incourage CEO's to pay their employees better.
Since corporations aren't "human" they should get no tax $, benifits or deductions. If a corporation doesn't like these rules, it should present itself to a court and since a corporation isn't a "person" no one could show up.
We also must recind all those horrible trade policies that the democrats shafted us with, raise tariffs, raise taxes on "american" corporations who have moved our jobs to slave labor counties like the dictatorship of communist China.
We must make it more expensive to move jobs overseas by using punishing taxes & tariffs.
"If we could only succeed in having the government hold fortunes down to a few million dollars to any one man, then there would be some money remaining to run the country and for the people. When I proposed such a thing, it looked like it would set the woods on fire against me." .......Huey Long, Share Our Wealth Society, constituent letter, (1933)
A cap on all fortunes is the answer. Ending massive accumulation of wealth at some, yet to be defined amount, would help facilitate the restoration of representative government.....and render the Citizens United Ruling meaningless!
Someone called Thom today and tossed in a new name for the K Street Lobbyists. I can't remember what it was, but they mentioned the term Fascism as part of it. This is right on target as to the kind of government these lobbyists foment for the enrichment of a few.
"The first truth is that liberty of a Democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power where it becomes stronger than the Democractic State itself. That in essence, is Fascism....ownership of government by an individual, by a group,or by any other controlling power.".....Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938 message to congress.
Lobbyists are not unlike those who would sell their fellow man into slavery just to make a quick and easy buck. In fact they already have sold American workers into wage slavery by pushing anti -union and free trade legislation.