Posted on 09/14/2015 7:03:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump said Sunday in an interview with CBS that ballooning CEO pay is “a total and complete joke,” sounding a populist tone as he continues to stir up the Republican base in his run for president.
“It does bug me. It’s very hard if you have a free enterprise system to do anything about that,” the Republican presidential frontrunner told CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday when asked about CEO pay. “You know the boards of companies are supposed to do it but I know companies very well and the CEO puts in all his friends…and they get whatever they want you know because their friends love sitting on the board.”
Trump takes some unorthodox views that set him apart from traditional Republicans, railing against free trade deals and the notion of cutting Medicare and Social Security. He once supported a single-payer healthcare system.
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The ones browbeating those that criticize astronomical CEO pay are usually the same ones criticizing raising the minimum wage. Ironic.
So you would force employers to employ people they don’t want to?
Yep. And it’s not the government’s job to fix that—it’s the shareholders’ job.
The question posed Trump was (I am paraphrasing), CEOs pay is about 350 times the average worker, do you think that is fair?
I am paraphrasing Trump's response, the CEOs are on each others board and vote each others pay raises. It's a joke.
Reason won’t work on them anymore. They’ve bought in. Everything will be justified.
Trump’s not just a Democrat, he’s a liberal Democrat. He is so far to the left of Romney that he fits in better with Sanders and Obama than any of the GOP candidates.
Right. That’s why the open borders crowd....all that you mentioned (Romney, 0bola and Sanders), as well as the other GOP candidates....are for building the wall and sending the illegals back.
Name ONE other politician, on EITHER side, who’s called for that?
Our system *should* prevent the government from even considering involvement in CEO pay. Emphasis on *should*.
I’d rather have a country where the CEO gets paid *X* instead of a country where the government determines what a CEO can get paid.
Absolutely agree. I mean, we hear Sanders and Obama rail on and on about how we need a wall on the southern border and mass deportations so often it’s getting old.
Oh. Right. NM.
I’ll be the first to admit there is a heck of a lot of incompetence in workplaces today. I go to two jobs almost every day, one in government, the other non-government.
There’s a lot of incompetence in both places and some folks deserving of losing their jobs, but they don’t.
But what I’m trying to tell you and everyone else out there is that people who have religious convictions about sexuality in opposition to gay marriage and or homosexuality are being marginalized from government and private business. People who have convictions about Islam as a threat to Western Civilization are also in the same boat.
RELIGIOUSLY CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE ARE BEING MARGINALIZED IN THE MODERN USA AND WESTERN EUROPE JUST LIKE AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE WITH ‘JIM CROW’ IN THE OLD SOUTH AND JUST LIKE JEWS WERE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF NAZI GERMANY.
The situation is that serious and your argument about ‘forcing employers to employ people they don’t want to’ doesn’t hold any water with me.
FREEDOM IS UNDER ATTACK FROM THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND IT SHOULD BE OPPOSED GEORGE PATTON STYLE
‘HELD BY ITS NOSE, KICKED IN ITS A** AND GIVEN HELL ALL THE TIME’.
Taking other people’s rights away to give your favored group super-rights doesn’t hold any water with me. Sorry.
I want everyone to have rights from gays and lesbians to religious people.
Gay Marriage legalization upsets the balance of rights in favor of LGBT and against the religious people.
IMO gay marriage is a bad idea.
But it doesn’t do what you claim.
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