Government Funding, the Economy & wealth Gap

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I’m a data driven person. I can make raw data say anything I want it to.

Unless you point specifically to the study you are using to make your case, you are just reciting LW rhetoric.

If there was a bad nuclear accident, their coverage would not be enough, leaving the government to cover the rest. I am not necessarily against nuclear energy, but w e still do not have a great way to store the waste.

Wind and solar with batteries is a better option. Not perfect, but no potential massive disaster.

CEO salary may affect your social justice sense of equality. What are total payments to CEOs and how would this affect income if it were distributed to all non ceos? Likely would make no difference. And if anyone has a direct grievance here, it is the stockholders of the company paying them. They are usually not concerned if the company is doing well.

Who makes up that “non-working” class?

I have certainly added my opinion and comments on almost every post. Like this one. My opinion is you are wrong.

That would be big government. They shouldn’t be doing that.

So, politicians can’t be bribed? Seriously?

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That does seem to be the conservative strategy. Stay fit, and if you get cancer, or some other disease or accident…just pray. :+1:

Says who?

Let free markets decide.

I have linked data…what are you specifically wanting me to provide?

And my opinion is at odds with your opinion.

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Bingo!

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You recited LW rhetoric. Easily dismissed by me reciting RW rhetoric.

If you have a specific study backing up your claim, then provide the link and we can discuss it.

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Let us know when you have a better idea than letting a corrupt government run the financials.

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The idea that the majority of CEO/Officers compensation is based on the stock, that creates strategies of short term gains, vs long term strategies for growth and stability. (hat tip to Peek).

If the majority of compensation was salary, with a smaller portion being stock price, to reduce their company’s tax burden, they would invest more in R&D, pay higher salaries, better benefits, more paid vacation or PTO, etc…as all of those are tax write offs.

Than who should manage commerce? Industry?

There is no free market!
The invisible hand does not care about monopolies, tax rates or regs…it allows industry to make the rules…and as Greenspan said after the 2008 crash…

“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,” said Greenspan.

Of course this applies to any industry, not just banks.

That quote was not directed at you…bad form.

I have provided data,.,not just my opinion.

Hell, I was accused of only providing data, and not my opinion.

Which specific subject…I have mentioned many.

The Financial industry was de-regulated by Clinton and Bush 2. That caused the 2008 crash. Greenspan also said that.