Posted on 01/14/2010 6:24:01 PM PST by blam
$145 BILLION*
Joe Weisenthal
Jan. 14, 2010, 7:54 PM
Thanks to taxpayers, Wall Street is going to have a killer bonus season, up 18% from last year, according to analysis from WSJ.
That works out to $145 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I guess I fall under the PIG picture...Zoowieeee!!!
The good Lord knows I detest taxes and especially new ones. They never go away. I fell strongly the same about the new bank taxes being considered.The excesses are disgusting. I started noticing in the mid nineties non union middle class wages stagnating. Now they are declining while wealthy are much more so. Something has been out of balance.
today, wall street “fat cats” don’t own their firms, they’re just highly compensated employees.
as a non-management wall street employee (grunt) for _part_ of one year, i earned about a 33% bonus on my annual salary. this was just for doing some nice work with backoffice systems, nothing really related to revenue, and i had no one reporting to me.
wall-street type firms are bonus oriented.
the “bonuses” the obamatites talk about are how the whole city works - incentive through bonuses.
it’s funny, like these antiquated commie hippies have woken up from a 1960’s stupor just yesterday and they don’t realize their drug-induced commie hallucinations aren’t real.
Jealousy is a pathway to communism. Would you rather have a system where the politicians and mafia are the rich, instead of your companies leaders?
so?
Stop forcing them to take money then. Obanuts
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