Our country had never before been this endangered. The Overton Window has shifted so far that we are all - regardless of prior experience or expertise - in uncharted waters. I want to focus attention on how extraordinary our current situation is.
@Aviation_Intel Pay them $10 million a year. No trading at all. No lobbying when out of office. We’d keep Congress from being full of people who are already rich.
@charlesbeaufait@ChimpWithMoney@DKThomp Here’s a comparison of top marginal tax rates to CEO:worker compensation. Raising taxes on the affluent will lower that inequality. So, it will work. I’ll let you expand on why that idea is “flat dumb.”
@ChimpWithMoney@DKThomp Try this. Make it a national goal to reduce the total CEO compensation at public companies to less than 50 x the compensation of their average employee.