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bronxiteforever

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Sun Jan 28, 2018, 02:49 PM Jan 2018

A Partial List of Companies That Could Have Afforded to Pay Employees a Good Wage before tax bill

Emma Roller
Splinter Friday January 26, 2018

Wells Fargo
The fine print: Analysts estimate the bank’s windfall from the GOP tax bill will be $3.7 billion—meaning the company is investing a little more than 2 percent of its tax gift in its own workers.
In 2016, Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan took in $12.9 million in executive compensation.

ATT

The fine print: AT&T is in the process of trying to acquire Time Warner in an $85 billion merger. Last November, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division sued AT&T to block the merger. Stephenson’s praise for the GOP tax bill one month after the feds blocked his company’s mega-merger smacks of corporate brown-nosing. Stephenson is one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country. In 2016, he took in $28.4 million in corporate salary—a 13 percent pay bump from the prior year.

https://splinternews.com/a-partial-list-of-companies-that-definitely-could-have-1822372762

Plenty more info on the list. Great information to counter the Evil Koch Family and their plot to buy Our Country and sentence the people to slavery.


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