manifold
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I'm sorry I missed your post before. Thank you for at least trying to discuss the topic.
The point being, step back and think about how much money a company has to make in order to pay one person, $10, $15, even $20 million dollars. One person. That's on top of paying every other person in the company, all expenses, etc and then still being able to turn a huge profit. Then you compare that to the amount that they have to pay in taxes which is miniscule when you compare it to everything above. The CEO salary alone being higher then the tax bill is just an illustration of how little these mega corporations are paying in taxes in relation to the money they are making. And that is because of the generous tax loopholes they are making use of.
I understand all that I just don't see how its "bad" for a company to make money or for someone to take a GIANT salary if a company will offer it.
I dont think they should be able to find all these loopholes, dont get me wrong, but I just don't see how its bad/wrong for companies or individuals to make a lot of money.
It's not bad for a CEO to make that salary or for a company to make lots of money. That's not the issue here. The issue here is they are paying very little(or even nothing!) in taxes on the money they are making. I'm all for people and business making money, lots of it. But they need to be paying taxes that lines up with the amount of money they are making. They are not, because of the loopholes that they have lobbied for and taken advantage of. That's the only point that is being made here.
So it's not your contention that republicans hate poor people?