[SAJ]

Camel's nose, m'friend. This chap sees quite clearly that, if the goobermint can unlawfully regulate the salaries of ANY persons, then sooner or later it will be regulating the salaries of everyone.

Whether their firm accepts ''federal'' money or not.

[Tempest]

Strawman.

[Tempest]

I hope someone didn’t try the same fear-mongering arguement on you to convince you to repeat that to me...

[r9etb]

Camel's nose, m'friend. This chap sees quite clearly that, if the goobermint can unlawfully regulate the salaries of ANY persons, then sooner or later it will be regulating the salaries of everyone.

Perhaps so -- and I think that would be a bad thing.

OTOH, your comment does nothing to address the fact that the greedy bastards who caused this problem were actually taking advantage of a lack of government regulation in certain areas.

John Adams said, "We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Where, as here, the finance types are clearly devoid of the sort of self-restraint about which Adams spoke ... a government based on an assumption of self-restraint is quite clearly insufficient to the task of making them behave.