Down through history, some people have taken more than their share, and others have had to slap their hands and tell them they can't have it all - they must share. Share with their employees, especially, the people who work hard at their factories and restaurants and the like.
I have no problem with rich folks, really I don't. They often have good ideas and take risks to start companies, which provide jobs for people. Often they earn large sums of money doing so. Not a problem. Good for them.
I have a problem, however, with corporations which pay their CEOs almost 400 times what they pay their lowest paid worker.
I have a problem when taxpayers have to subsidize the meager pay of the workers with welfare.
I have a problem with corporations being bailed out with taxpayer funded government payments on the premise that the corporation will create jobs - and then they don't.
I have a problem with those corporations then hiding their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying income tax.
I have a problem with companies shipping their manufacturing overseas and paying those workers even less than they would pay American workers.
I have a problem with the newest scheme - companies merging with overseas companies and making the foreign company the headquarters. Of course, the foreign country has a very low tax rate and the new merged company pays no United States income tax.
And on and on.
As Nick Hanauer, a very wealthy self described "plutocrat" says in a talk on YouTube, speaking to his fellow plutocrats - "The pitchforks are coming."
Meaning that throughout history, the "peasants", those working for the wealthy, have taken only so much - then revolted. In France, they came after the nobles with pitchforks. It wasn't pretty.
As I keep saying - you have to take care of your people. Or, trust me - they will take care of you. And it won't be pretty.
