Re: Those darn CEO's
Author: Air brake
Date: 07-08-2015 - 21:41
Economist Wrote:
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> The problem is if it weren't for those nasty CEO's
> and their equally nasty minions, none of the rest
> of us would have jobs. Do you think your union
> stewards could run the company? Sure, those CEO's
> make obscene amounts of money, but the secret to a
> progress income tax system that can claw some of
> that money back for the rest of us to spend
> through our various tax supported programs like
> Medicare.
Yes, but forty/fifty years ago, the CEOs of industrial and transportation enterprises were compensated at much lower levels, yet those firms employed many more workers.
Consumers could also argue that services and products were better, too.