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1StrongBlackMan

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13. What we have seen ...

Reply to Fearless (Reply #12)

Thu Aug 1, 2013, 10:35 PM

Aug 2013

since 1980 is corporations "investing in" the CEOs and executives, not the workers (which increases the inequaity). No increase in tax rates is going to change that ... unless that increase is tied to rules that limit the amount going to the C-Suite.

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