Executives receive one-third of all pay in the U.S.
Executives receive one-third of all pay in the U.S.
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data, more than one-third of all pay in the U.S. now goes to executives and other highly-paid employees:
Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data — without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries. Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total U.S. pay in 2007, the latest figures available. The compensation numbers don’t include incentive stock options, unexercised stock options, unvested restricted stock units and certain benefits.
Between 1979 and 2006, the inflation-adjusted after-tax income of the richest 1 percent of households increased by 256 percent, compared to 21 percent for families in the middle income quintile. Despite these numbers, Democratic leaders, “bowing to unease among lawmakers and governors in their own party,” are reconsidering the House Ways and Means committee’s proposal to implement a surtax on the richest one percent of Americans as a way of financing a portion of health care reform. The Wonk Room has more.
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Congressional Dims are caving to the Pukes on the surtax because they, too, are all members of the top 1%, if not now, then when they go to work for K Street.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:49 pmAh yes, the Great Man theory of leadership. And man, not many women making this much.
Somebody has to buy the mansions, right? What else would be there on that land?
If one is settling a new territory, or even planet… the first people needed… executives. Am I right? No builders or doctors or farmers!
July 21st, 2009 at 9:54 pmOh and these poor ordinary folks cannot bear a tax increase, it would be the straw breaking the camel’s back.
Sure, as it says this isn’t about many other forms of income or old money. But those are just trickled down, or something.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:55 pmAnd this is suprising? I find it depressing. And yet, we have Repugs and Demoncrats kowtowing to these assho*es while the average working stiff can’t afford health care or send his kids to college. We can thank Regan and other pols for dismantling eberything our Forefathers fought for. I think I’ll go to Canada. I hope if I get sick, I won’t die in the street.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:57 pmTime to pay the piper. The top 5% income earners got a free ride from 2001-2008 under Chimpy. Now, its time level the field a bit. And it’s not like these people work in areas that contribute directly to the welfare of the Country.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:57 pmMost of these people deal in hedge funds, insurance, stock trading and the like. Essentially, they’re leeches who have helped suck the lifeblood out of our country. Pay up.
Jim Wolf359 says:
The top 5% income earners got a free ride from 2001-2008 under Chimpy.
Actually they have had a free ride since Reagan, if not before.
Definitely time to pay up
July 21st, 2009 at 10:03 pmI’d also add that they won’t be hurt by this surtax. Where I live, (Aspen, Colorado), a mansion on Red Mountain, a exclusive enclave just outside of town sold for $42,000,000 CASH. Kid you not. Straight cash transaction.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pmJim@5, Try to explain that to the crazies who think all taxes are evil. For years the Repugs have said the mantra ‘Taxes are evil’ that average Americans believe it. Even the delusional righties will defend these rich assho*es right to ‘Capitalism’ Even if they are living out of a box.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pmIt’s time to return to the progressive tax rates that were in effect under Eisenhower, where the very top earners maxed out at 91%.
That was a post-war economy, after years of national sacrifice which followed years known as the Great Depression.
The richest of the rich got their “sell” orders bumped up to first in line after 9/11, and they were already selling everything at the end of last summer, just before the bubble burst.
Tax ‘em! Tax ‘em like crazy! Cut the taxes on the other 95%, watch the economy improve, watch real healthcare reform pass, and watch the GNOPers try to run on the “oh, no! taxes!” platform in 2012.
PEACE
July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pmIt is time for the top 1% to pay their share of taxes. This is just ridiculous! I can not believe that Democrats have any sympathy for those who should pay more taxes. They’ve broken the middle class down – how much more do they think we can take?!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:08 pmI hear ya P.D. I have to listen to it enough here in Aspen. And yet these are the same people who have to work 2 or 3 jobs (if you can find even one), live in a shobox of an apartment with 3 to 4 others. And yet they consistently vote against themselves and complain when things don’t get better.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:10 pmYeah, well, that’s to be expected -I mean, them high executives having superior Ivy League education, being more intelligent, and overall better able to manage successful companies such as Enron, Countrywide Financial, GM, Washington Mutual, Worldcom, Adelphia, Bear Stearns, and countless others.
Thank goodness for the invisible hand, and the forces of the market! Without them, we’d be in horrible economic shape!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:11 pmThis is why what’s left of the middle class is holding on by it’s fingernails.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pmI am sorry, troll. Did you just babble something?
See, I don’t speak strawmanese…
July 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pmWrong Proud Moron.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:15 pmI’ve worked like hell to get where I am and I can say I’ve earned it. As a Progessive, I have always believed in the value of earning my own way and I think I speak for a lot of people on this board.
I just thank the FSM that this is a Christian nation. Since greed is one of the seven deadly sins, think what shape this country would be in if it weren’t for the Christians, or something like that also too.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:16 pmProud, GO AWAY. Calling the average American lazy is stupid. My husband is a self-made man. He works construction and gets his hands dirty and he puts food on the table. We pay a fortune in healthcare and they don’t cover sh*t. Do you get your hands dirty? Do you work a physical job? I believe Proud should be banished. I have been a volunteer all my life, and people like you Proud make me sick. I have seen people without insurance, I have seen families lose a love one. And you know what? I will do it again. Because it is the moral, humanr thing to do.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:16 pmWhile we’re doing our tax reform wish list, let’s have Social Security and Medicare taxes kick back in after, oh say, the first $1 million, and make it apply to ALL compensation so the clever accountants don’t hide the compensation under the guise of bonuses or “expense” reimbursement. Again, it could be a progressive tax that kicks in at 1% for the second million, 2% up to $4 million, etc. with a cap at $50 million.
Here’s another fine idea – how about taxing churches on any end-of-year surpluses that exceed 2 years worth of actual operating expenses! Then the Mo’s won’t have the cash to go into other states and fund campaigns to deny the civil rights of others.
PEACE
July 21st, 2009 at 10:16 pmJim Wolf359 says: #12
July 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pmI think proud to be an idiot just made your point…
The troll is one of the morons who think Henry Ford III, and William Ford II both got their jobs at Ford thanks to their very, very hard work.
Nothing was handed to them on a silver platter. Their last name had nothing to do with it. Oh no, no, no way.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pmF ucking idiotic trickle-down voodoo Reaganomics.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pmQuite the opposite for you Proud. In my experience, the ones who scream the longest and the loudest for help from the gummint tend to be the trailer trash that votes against there own interests. And still expects the handout when it doesn’t come.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:18 pmMaybe proudwithoutshame should move to China.
No unions there!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:19 pmThis supports one component of the Congressional GOP’s ideology:
- May the rich get richer, the middle class maintain the status quo, and the poor get deported. Cause even if they are citizens or legal immigrants, they’re parasites on society and we don’t want them anymore.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:21 pmLefty Liberal says,
July 21st, 2009 at 10:22 pmHe does all the time.
Proud tool, no one is looking for a handout. I’ve earned my stripes – I have a career and a college degree – FYI.
Things need to change in order for people to be able to earn a descent wage and afford healthcare. We all have a right to live and be healthy. The cycle of corporate greed must be broken.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:23 pmNotJoeTheNotPlumber is a perfect example of GNOP hypocrisy. Himself a two-time welfare recipient, he now rails against government spending. And that was just the welfare part he admitted to. If he truly received welfare, he also received food stamps, Medicaid and, if he was working, child care assistance. Even after the welfare checks stopped, the other aid programs most likely continued.
As a NotPlumber, he would never have been allowed to own the NotPlumbing business he declared he was [not] just about to buy while insisting that Candidate Obama was going to raise his taxes on NotHis business.
Even if I could forgive McCain for all the smears from the campaign, he can never be forgiven for thrusting Palin and NotJoe into the national spotlight. Shit, it’s been nearly a year and not a day goes by when one of those idiots isn’t given a feature story somewhere.
PEACE
July 21st, 2009 at 10:27 pmI am so glad I didn’t take any math or statistics classes after Jr. High so I won’t be able draw any correlations among the data presented here and the political and economic disaster we find our country in presently. I have just enough time to listen to Faux News, Rush and Sean, quaff a few brewskis, go home and kick the dog, knock my wife around a little, shoot my guns in the backyard, secure my pickup and kiss the flag before resting comfortably in my bed: in America, of course.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:28 pmJim Wolf359 says:
Lefty Liberal says,
He does all the time.
As stupid as he is, he does have a certain entertainment value… about the same value as enron stock these days.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:29 pmlabman57 @25
I thought the poor were to fight the wars and fill the subsidy backed, corporate private prisons?
Both with full healthcare, of course
July 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pmspencers mom says:
Even if I could forgive McCain for all the smears from the campaign, he can never be forgiven for thrusting Palin and NotJoe into the national spotlight. Shit, it’s been nearly a year and not a day goes by when one of those idiots isn’t given a feature story somewhere.
The problem isn’t really with McCain on this. It is with the news agencies that keep putting them front and center. But that is what the corporate masters want. They want these types on the news so real issues can’t be discussed.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:32 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Spencers mom – I agree.
I want to add that Joethenotplumber and Palin allowed themselves to get “played” by McCain. I find the two of them offensive. They’re a disgrace to honest working Americans! They’re an assault on the very people they claim to represent.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pmProudMoron. I always KNEW you were stupid. Staggeringly, breathtakingly stupid. Your last post charted new horizons of utter moronity. Sure EVERYONE in America can be a top executive by hating unions and working hard. There is no NEED for anyone to mop floors EVERYONE can be a top executive. My GOD you are stupid. You hate unions because you are jealous. Why would YOU want a good job, good benifits, good pay and job security when you can mooch off of your parents and live in their basement. Dont even try to tell us you are successful no one as patently stupid as you could EVER to better than asking if we want fries with that. Just STFU and stop embarassing yourself.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:45 pmInteresting. The “National Taxpayers Union” says that the top 1% are still put-upon by the tax man, eh?
Unfortunately for them, while the top 1% pays 39% of income taxes, it controls 42% of financial wealth and owns 54% of corporate wealth.
The next 19% owns 50.4% of financial wealth, leaving 7.5% of all financial wealth in the US econmomy to be distributed among the other 80% of the population.
Those poor chaps.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:53 pmStampede88 says:
meaningless nonsense
Remember, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
When you consider how much of the wealth in this country is controlled by the upper 20% of the population vs. the amount of wealth controlled by the bottom 80%, those at the top are not paying anywhere near what they should.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:00 pmSorry Ralph, you beat me to it with better numbers.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:01 pmStampede88 says:
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Ok Stamp let’s say you are barely in the highest tax bracket which start at $372,951 at 35% you get back $242,418.15.
Now if you were at the top of the bottom 50%, $31,987 at 15% you get back $27188.95.
Don’t know about you, but I’d rather get back 65% of $372,951 instead of 85% of $31,987.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:06 pmGood shot Ralph as usual. The thing is there is no QUESTION that the wealthy pay a much smaller percentage of their DISPOSABLE income in taxes than the middle class
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Yeah Tim,
July 21st, 2009 at 11:13 pmI just gave you the first thumbs down. This shouldn’t take too long.
Tim Vaculik says:
Same useless nonsense as always
And you are one to point that out? LOL!!!!!!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tim Vaculik says:
Soooooooooo… How’s that Obama thing workin’ for ya?
Soooooooooo… How’s that “I’m a moron” thing workin’ for ya?
July 21st, 2009 at 11:19 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Between 1979 and 2006, the inflation-adjusted after-tax income of the richest 1 percent of households increased by 256 percent, compared to 21 percent for families in the middle income quintile. Despite these numbers, Democratic leaders, “bowing to unease among lawmakers and governors in their own party,” are reconsidering the House Ways and Means committee’s proposal to implement a surtax on the richest one percent of Americans as a way of financing a portion of health care reform. The Wonk Room has more.
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Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party declared war on the middle class and now we see the fruits of their labor. Let’s hope Obama can rise to the occasion and put the middle class in the forefront once again.
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Just a quick thought, get a job, apply yourself stay away from Unions and you too can be highly paid executive. But of course “progressives” don’t believe in hard work they think everything should be handed to them on a silver platter. Lets punish success and redistribute my hard earned money to the lazy liberals.
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PROUD,
You are truly outstanding, a fine example of citizen and a Christian.
I thank the stars your kind walk among us lesser mortals, you’re an inspiration to us all.
Please continue to grace this humble site with your inspirational and thought provoking comments. You are truly a great man among men.
very, very, very humbly, flight
July 21st, 2009 at 11:28 pmTim Vaculik says:
Stampede88,
BTW, good luck with posting here. I’ll be sure to scan for hidden posts to find you! The children are still playing with their new toy! I compulsively play with mine. No worries, still have one hand to type rubbish!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:32 pmI like the vote down feature. Good to see this blog now coming with less stupid.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:37 pmMark Levin?
Liberty and Tyrany…….
A GREED Manifesto!
Mein Kampf for Americans…….Groovy, dude.
Why aren’t you reading it right now, comrade?
July 21st, 2009 at 11:42 pmI’ve always been pro-capitalist. I’ve always thought socialist ideas seemed well intentioned, but wrongheaded because they stymie competition.
But, I am beginning to understand that if capital becomes too concentrated in fewer hands, more and more people become alienated from the capitalist system. They are alienated because they have no realistic expectation to benefit from the system.
So, although a capitalist system does create competitive forces that spur economic activity, there does come a point, where those forces unchecked, yield diminishing returns for more and more of the population.
At some point, moderation of the burgeoning gaps in wealth, not only helps the have nots, but benefits those capitalists that have prospered, by reducing the potential for a total collapse of a system that benefits fewer and fewer people.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:43 pmMegaloptera McWars says:
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Tim Vaculik says:
Stampede88,
BTW, good luck with posting here. I’ll be sure to scan for hidden posts to find you! The children are still playing with their new toy! I compulsively play with mine. No worries, still have one hand to type rubbish!
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Megaloptera McWars,
July 21st, 2009 at 11:49 pmI didn’t need to know that.
It will make you go blind if you keep it up!
Megaloptera McWars,
I didn’t need to know that.
It will make you go blind if you keep it up!
There’s no stopping Tim!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 amMostly OT but, this is why I hate our selfish, blinded by greed and power, politicians. Check it out.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 amTim Vacuous told me he wasn’t going to post comments on TP anymore, and that he was just going to lurk.
Does it surprise anyone that Tim Vacuous is a liar?
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:23 amThe rich pay less in taxes than any other first world nation, and they still manage to get away with this?
It’s not even the republicans this time, that’s the scary thing. It’s the DEMOCRATS who backed down on taxing the rich for this healthcare plan. Why? Oh yeah. Because they themselves are rich too.
Why do we tolerate this? I really want to know. Why?
If I had a million dollars, I’d be set for life. These people make SEVERAL million dollars EVERY SINGLE YEAR. And that number just keeps going up.
Can we all finally agree that while yes, it’s fun to look at these expensive homes and stuff, that no one really NEEDS that sort of extravagance? Please tell me I’m not alone here.
I want to live simply. Greenly. Economically. Frugally. Sustainably. These people don’t. It’s as simple as that. I think it’s high time to take back what’s ours. Our hard earned money goes into their pockets, via tax-funded bailouts or forked over via medical care, consumer goods, or house payments.
They don’t deserve it. It’s time to take it back. All of it. And watch these people suffer just as much as we all suffer. Watch them starve in the streets because they have to choose whether to make that mortgage payment or buy groceries.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 amspencers mom says:
It’s time to return to the progressive tax rates that were in effect under Eisenhower, where the very top earners maxed out at 91%.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I agree with Mom. 90%+ tax rate on these people.
The revolution has to begin somewhere.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Hi Minus 5…
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
singe_101 says:
If one is settling a new territory, or even planet… the first people needed… executives. Am I right? No builders or doctors or farmers!
Well, historically, the among first people in any new community that are needed are prostitutes… so I guess it could apply. ;)
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 amAmong the*
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 amExactly Zooey and Mom…
Repeal the Reagan Tax cuts!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 amIn your wildest dreams, acerebralist.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 ambackup… you actually spoke the truth… we are in the cancer stage of capitalism… and we need government oversite to bring it back into line.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 amOops.
Minus 5 = acerebralist
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 amWow. That troll fizzled fast.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 amTimmeh. You worthless moron. Did I see a WWWWWAAAAHHHHHH that you keep getting voted down? You are stupid. Your posts are stupid. They arent worth reading and getting the one way ticket to the sewer is actually better than your moron posts deserve.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 amMinus 5 says:
You stupid, punkass troll. May you die penniless and friendless, face down in the gutter with rats gnawing on your earlobes
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 amSuch wealth is at the very least a failure of imagination.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 amSorry, O.T. but…
… If you care about single payer health care, WEDNESDAY is call to action day!
Weiner Blasts the Critics of Health Reform; Ask the Energy and Commerce Committee to Vote YES on the HR 676 Amendment
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July 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 amp.s.
Sorry for the brevity
lol
Sorry,
But the video at the link is a man who get’s and gives it to those who deserve it!!!
Rep. Anthony Weiner, (D-NY09), in action.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:58 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADPnKE2Uak
So this explains why my boss says he can’t afford to give me a raise…
… Because he’s hoarding it for himself?
p.s.
Dear Daryyll,
How mush of that money will fit through that eye?
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July 22nd, 2009 at 2:04 amaint capitalism great
we continue to blame people and fail to see the system
with communism man exploits man with capitalism it is the other way around
we cheered when communism failed not realizing capitalism’s failure was close at hand.
the lesson here be careful when you cheer others demise.
and some state that cosmic or spiritual laws do not exist.
america is a failing nation and much of that failure is due to a economic policy that russel nailed in this quote:
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty which are embodied in one maxim: the fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate” Bertrand Russell.
instead we are told by our politicans and economists that this downturn is just a recession. pure genius on their part.
hey there is always hope. :-)
dont forget to pay those tax dollars wall street is waiting for it to dole out their bonuses. :-)
aint capitalism great
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:24 amThom Hartmann wrote a great article called “The Great Con Job”. Read it as it puts things into perspective with regards to taxes and who is picking up the tab.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/21
Watch Rep. Capuano rail against bank CEOs: No One Trusts You Anymore
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wTE4e4sSXU&feature=related
They don’t just own wealth, they own us.
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 amThere are 3 types of people:
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:24 am1. People that know they are owned and sometimes fight against it (Democrats, 20% )
2. People that just give up.(non-voters 61%)
3. People that don’t know they are owned (republicans, 29%)
There is no point is raising taxes if there is an proportional increase in poor spending decisions. I think Bush was right to leave taxes low because even with the money he DID spend he messed up. The government has enough money as it is, I think Obama has too much faith the government will work. I’ve never seen it work. I can’t think of anyone who has. I’m not trying to say all programs are bad, I’m just saying the government spends money like a kid in a candy store.
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:40 am“hH, I’m an Ivy league educated Executive. I might not be smart enough to save my failing company. But, I am smart enough to walk away from the flaming car wreck with my millions of dollars.”
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 amI see by the comments here that most of you have completely forgotten the Clinton administration.
That’s funny. It really wasn’t that long ago:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0514-20.htm
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:32 amIt’s time they pay there fare share.
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 amThe upper class’ shady dealings when it comes to the accumulation of wealth over time stifles the lower classes’ ability to have a fair shot at economic opportunity. Wealth in this country is too often built off the backs of those less fortunate through lies, cheats, and deceit. Look at what the banks and insurance companies are doing to the middle and lower classes as we speak. Look at every crony fortunate enough to fit in George Bush’s pocket throughout his presidency. They’re all buddies, and that’s why I don’t feel bad about burdening the nation’s highest paid executives who receive a third of all income. Those among the richest 1% who wine about socialized distribution are just protecting its accumulation at the expense of the lower classes.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:39 amDear Lord, I can’t stomach Morning Joe anymore. Between Joe’s self-rightiousness and Mika acting like a school-marm it is becoming increasingly clear the MSM is in bed with Big Business. If I have to listen to Mika say ‘indoor voices’ once more time, I will put a ice pick in my eye.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 am1st reform – remove the FISA salary cap. 2nd reform – Then do something similar to help Medicare/Medicaid.
Then reform corporate taxes so that their deductions are limited & “income” is higher.
Or simpler, Go to Eisenhower income tax rates + #s 1&2 above
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 amI love the idea that the top 1% will be taxed to help pay for healthcare for all but I doubt it will happen. There’s nothing fair in this world anymore.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:48 amhormiga brava chavez says:
It is time for the top 1% to pay their share of taxes. This is just ridiculous! I can not believe that Democrats have any sympathy for those who should pay more taxes. They’ve broken the middle class down – how much more do they think we can take?!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Would it be worth knowing what percent of the total tax bill these top earners are already paying?
It has to be considerable because many of those on the low end of the scale don’t pay anything.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:25 amWould it be worth knowing what percent of the total tax bill these top earners are already paying?
From each according to ability, to each according to need.
The more you profit from the system, the more you are required to support it.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 amIt has to be considerable because many of those on the low end of the scale don’t pay anything.
You’re going to get actual class warfare now.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:47 amThe truly rich will just try to find more loopholes to hide their income so I’m glad to see Obama going after that first.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 amOverlay these charts with charts showing deregulation measures. It would be scary. What this really shows is the failure of capitalism to regulate itself. The obvious solution is to apply increased regulation on capital. For that to happen we need to start with public financing of federal elections. Only then can we begin to turn this slide around. The race to the bottom has been a huge failure and it has been going on for at least 40 years. Yes, Clinton signed the repeal of Glass-Stegall (sp), lest we forget. We last had real progressives in government in the 1960’s and LBJ threw it all away in Vietnam.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 amIncome taxes pay mostly for things like both Iraq wars and Afghanistan, Imperialism, NAFTA, GAT, free trade agreements, interstate freeways, National Parks, FBI, CIA, a hot-shot standing military, etc. The middle class and poor pay sales taxes fund local roads, hospitals, schools, local parks, libraries, cops, city/county councils, fire fighting, etc.
I would think most of the worthwhile taxes are paid by the middle class and poor.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:18 amThese guys are so clueless they think they’ve earned it.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 amUs worker bees seem to waste precious time working around their decisions in order to get stuff done and meet the customer’s needs.
The mahogany row crowd are all bubble boys.
The deficit is over $1 trillion. All right-wing Republicans should be required to take remedial arithmatic classes.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 amarithmetic
I guess I should take a remedial spelling class.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 amWhy do we not pay them what they are WORTH,
instead of what they THINK they are worth?
July 24th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Executives are merely self-important enough to matter more than everyone else!
The lesson of “modern art”:
A thing is only worth what you get for it.
If no one wants to pay big money, its not worth anything.
If people pay big money for a Campbell Soup can, it must be thrice profound! Even when it makes fun of that very system.
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Why, bloggers tell us so. The people who gain – blog “professionally.”
If there is personal recompense. A money exchange you can feel as it crosses your palm.
Why would anyone pay for the “we are all in this together” crowd; pay for such a message?
There is no direct paycheck for such activity.
That’s probably why progressive ideas & media have had problems with the bottom line. Progressive radio. Public television. Public Education. What can’t we afford NEXT?
No one pays to be NORMAL.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:26 amTo enhance the bottom line status quo.
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