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Old 02-10-2009, 08:32 AM   #56 (permalink)
aceventura3
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
If a corporation of, say, 50,000 employees decides to give their CEO $10,000,000/year (and by this, I mean the Board of Directors decides), and that CEO fails, you suggest that the market should punish the corporation for the mistake. Isn't the end result of such "punishment" a round of low-level employee layoffs and a comfy severance package for the outgoing CEO? In other words, why support a system that punishes the lower level workers for the mistakes of the executives?
The employees of failed companies go to work for successful companies.
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
--the only responsibility a ceo has institutionally is to increase shareholder value.
Your use of the word "only" is misleading. A CEO of a publicly traded corporations has legal and fiduciary responsibilities responsibilities to constituents other than shareholders.
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
conservatives and their information phobia...there should be a drug that can be taken to deal with that disorder.

you might want to check this out.

http://www.faireconomy.org/files/exe...xcess_2008.pdf
In the Key Findings section:

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Average U.S. taxpayers subsidize
excessive executive compensation — by more than $20 billion per year — via a
variety of tax and accounting loopholes.
The problem is not with the CEO but with the convoluted tax code. Taxation based on consumption would tax people based on lifestyle rather than "income" which can be manipulated very easily. If a person lives like a billionaire they should be taxed accordingly, we should not tax labor, savings and investments.
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