Thank you, citizens, for further stuffing our already inflated pockets!

Yeah, but those CEOs have to work really long hours, and teachers only work like five hours a day, plus they have all summer off, so it all evens out.

I'll admit I feel pretty bad for them. Can we give them another round of massive tax cuts? No doubt they will use that money to invest and create jobs, rather than tucking it away offshore.

At least my taxes aren't paying for that CEO's pay.

CEO...I shoulda gone into that.

I believe that teachers are underpaid, but the pay scale of a different job is irrelevant to whether or not that is the case.

Teachers/principles/admin = overpaid.
CEO's = overpaid.

Case closed. Next?

Prank Call of Cthulhu: Yeah, but those CEOs have to work really long hours, and teachers only work like five hours a day, plus they have all summer off, so it all evens out.

Prank Call of Cthulhu: teachers only work like five hours a day, plus they have all summer off,

Plus, they're just glorified babysitters. So let's pay'em babysitter rates: $3/hr per child and not a penny more.

Yes, those people who worked really hard to achieve their success shouldn't get the money they worked for.

As for the teachers, if you want the REAL problem with pay in our education system today, compare the wage of a college professor with that of the football coach at a large American university. It's insane.

Only 9 million? I'd like to use taxpayer money to bail them out of their horrible predicament.

Well if the CEO screws up, he can be fired.

there is that.

CEO pay is too high in many cases. They don't take personal risk like someone who actually owns a business and they are guaranteed millions even if they run a company into the ground. Warren Buffet has been known to leave companies that he is thinking about buying into without even walking in the door if he sees that all the executives have $200,000 cars. It probably doesn't help to complain about it though.

HotSalsaZoot: Teachers/principles/admin = overpaid.
CEO's = overpaid.

Case closed. Next?

Your teachers sucked.

karnal: At least my taxes aren't paying for that CEO's pay.

You do pay for subsidies and tax breaks and bailouts.


So....yeah. You kinda are.

Marine1: if you want the REAL problem with pay in our education system today, compare the wage of a college professor with that of the football coach at a large American university. It's insane.

You do understand that the football program generates tons of money for the school, correct?

trappedspirit: Pay somebody 9.6M who makes more than that for the company?

No, the company makes that. Chances are the company would do about as well with no (or another) CEO. See how much the company makes without workers.

Wow, the top 200 businessmen make a lot of money? Color me shocked! I guarantee the top 200 athletes made more than the top 200 businessmen. Probably the same for entertainment too.

J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger: They don't take personal risk like someone who actually owns a business and they are guaranteed millions even if they run a company into the ground.

They actually put their personal assets on the line as they can be sued by employees, stockholders, vendors, etc if they run the company into the ground.

Class warfare and wealth envy have become tiresome. Please come up with another trope to show everyone how small of a person you are.

Anyone checked out the pay for top athletes or movie stars? Let's beat their children for fun!

karnal: At least my taxes aren't paying for that CEO's pay.

I'm sorry to hear about your coma over the last 3 years. You have a lot to catch up on.

MugzyBrown: Marine1: if you want the REAL problem with pay in our education system today, compare the wage of a college professor with that of the football coach at a large American university. It's insane.

You do understand that the football program generates tons of money for the school, correct?

Yeah, I know that. At the same time, though, it's hard to argue for cutting the salaries of faculty when you sign the coach to a new, multi-million dollar deal coming out of the same revenue system.

karnal: At least my taxes aren't paying for that CEO's pay.

Correct. Also:


CEOs add value to the economy. Teachers do not.
CEOs do not shut the company down in solidarity with their fellow CEOs just to win the "right" to sit at home on their asses all summer collecting taxpayer money.
Only a very few very talented extremely intelligent people can rise to CEO level. Any sorority whore with a six year Women's Studies degree can teach.


/facts

But those CEOs have contracts. They were promised that salary. We can't mess with their contracts! The world will end if we do.

Remember kids. It's bootstrappy capitalism to privatize the profits and to subsidise the losses.

BikerRay: trappedspirit: Pay somebody 9.6M who makes more than that for the company?

No, the company makes that. Chances are the company would do about as well with no (or another) CEO. See how much the company makes without workers.

False equivalence is false.

MugzyBrown: J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger: They don't take personal risk like someone who actually owns a business and they are guaranteed millions even if they run a company into the ground.

They actually put their personal assets on the line as they can be sued by employees, stockholders, vendors, etc if they run the company into the ground.

Uh, no. Learn what a corporation is.

trappedspirit: Pay somebody 9.6M who makes more than that for the company? That's...that's just unfair! And craaaazy!

They pay them that much if they lose money for the company, too. I'd love to be a CEO. Be incompetent as shiat for a while, get a golden parachute, and move to the islands.

What companies do these CEO's work for?

Stavr0: Prank Call of Cthulhu: teachers only work like five hours a day, plus they have all summer off,

Plus, they're just glorified babysitters. So let's pay'em babysitter rates: $3/hr per child and not a penny more.

Pretty sure that ends up being a pay raise for most teachers, given the 5 hour a day work week, 8 months, and 25 kids in a classroom.

I'm sure their jobs are very hard and involve more than coming out of the right vagina or hanging around with the right elitist crowd... right?

Success in America has become a joke. It's just not a very funny joke.

jehovahs random negro: karnal: At least my taxes aren't paying for that CEO's pay.

Correct. Also:


CEOs add value to the economy. Teachers do not.
CEOs do not shut the company down in solidarity with their fellow CEOs just to win the "right" to sit at home on their asses all summer collecting taxpayer money.
Only a very few very talented extremely intelligent people can rise to CEO level. Any sorority whore with a six year Women's Studies degree can teach.


/facts

9/10

Would have been 10/10 except for the "CEOs add value to the economy. Teachers do not." Too obvious.

$9.6 million a year is middle class, why do people hate the middle class?

Carousel Beast: BikerRay: trappedspirit: Pay somebody 9.6M who makes more than that for the company?

No, the company makes that. Chances are the company would do about as well with no (or another) CEO. See how much the company makes without workers.

False equivalence is false.

You should not use words when you don't understand their meaning.

Private companies can pay their employees whatever they want.

If you don't like it, get on the board and change it.

DNRTFA, This must be the average of a limited group of CEOs they are talking about.

Anybody that runs their own company is the CEO of that company. Every independent tax accountant, doctor, lawyer, architect, landscaper, plumber, Amway distributionist, Driving school instructor, Restaurant owner, Dog walker, Body shop owner would all have to be figured into that average.

stryker4526: Uh, no. Learn what a corporation is.

Thanks for showing you don't know what you're talking about

you have pee hands: trappedspirit: Pay somebody 9.6M who makes more than that for the company? That's...that's just unfair! And craaaazy!

They pay them that much if they lose money for the company, too. I'd love to be a CEO. Be incompetent as shiat for a while, get a golden parachute, and move to the islands.

Don't forget to kick the hard working people actually making all that money. Don't want them getting all uppetty.

You'll never hear a "conservative" being concerned over how much pay a CEO that runs a company that exist entirely off taxpayer money receives. But they are vewy concered over how much the execs at NPR get paid, what's up with that?