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calimary

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21. Well, the freakin' PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES makes $400,000 a year.

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:24 AM

Mar 2014

That job can also be regarded as the position of Most Powerful Man/Woman in the WORLD. And the yearly salary is less than half-a-million dollars.

Perhaps with income inequality being so ridiculously unbalanced, some drastic corrective measures just might be needed. It would be one thing if we had these obscene CEO salaries but everybody farther down the food chain at least had enough to eat every day, or had a secure roof over their head, or wasn't underwater in their mortgage, or didn't have to go to food pantries every week, or had to live in their cars. But this is freakin' RIDICULOUS, and it CANNOT be sustained. Actually, or morally. It is UNSUSTAINABLE. It is an obscenity. A disgrace! It is a freakin' SIN. Not just any ol' sin, either, but a Capital Sin - avarice (greed).

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Why not just go back to the old graduated brackets which topped out at around 90%? Loudly Mar 2014 #1

Like it was during the good times in the fifties under that "Democrat", Dwight D. Eisenhower. marble falls Mar 2014 #23

Who warned the nation against unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex! Loudly Mar 2014 #28

The same! marble falls Mar 2014 #29

Just To Be Sure It Worked, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2014 #2

The only possible problem would be yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #5

So No Chains Are Implemented, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2014 #6

How could this work for real? yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #8

What About The Owner, Sir? The Magistrate Mar 2014 #10

Amazon is not going away yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #11

Then He Gets Twenty Times What His Lowest Paid Worker Gets, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2014 #12

I actually like your idea yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #13

I Think The Fellow Who Started This, Sir, Hinted Pretty Broadly It Was Not A Practical Proposal... The Magistrate Mar 2014 #14

Isn't that how Costco does it? calimary Mar 2014 #22

Well, the freakin' PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES makes $400,000 a year. calimary Mar 2014 #21

this- mopinko Mar 2014 #16

States could start by passing their own law...just like minimum wage laws Sienna86 Mar 2014 #3

You're doing it wrong. ret5hd Mar 2014 #4

It would be ruled unconstitutional so fast your head would spin Lurks Often Mar 2014 #7

Capital gains would be too complicated. Boom Sound 416 Mar 2014 #9

The first part already did work. MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #15

The problem with capping income... Motown_Johnny Mar 2014 #17

I think we should just get rid of capitalism. nt TBF Mar 2014 #18

Should be 99% top marginal rate salib Mar 2014 #19

Enemy combatant Augiedog Mar 2014 #20

Welcome to DU, Augiedog! calimary Mar 2014 #24

I wish I could disagree. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #25

It's an interesting idea. SheilaT Mar 2014 #26

It is pretty terrible. nt CFLDem Mar 2014 #27