(08-16-2021, 12:25 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(08-16-2021, 12:21 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: So if an NFL quarterback makes $35 million, then the ball boy has to make $350,000.

They'd just start creating LLCs for each employee making them their own CEO while operating as an independent contractor....

There are numerous legal techniques in the laws to prevent this work-around -- for example, the law requires the health plan and the retirement plan to be the same for everybody, but it puts in a broad test for what counts as the same "employer" for measuring that. Same thing goes for making an affordable offer of health care under Obamacare. Same thing goes for discrimination type claims.

Bottom line, there's no good reason to worry about high CEO salaries unless one worries about high athlete salaries.

And it's not the government's business to balance things out -- that is a tyrannical view of government and society. But to the true socialist, the government should be deciding that. And it ultimately results in a ruinous state of affairs where everyone is poorer.

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