By: weston
Lawmakers voted decisively Thursday to impose a 90 percent tax on millions of dollars in employee bonuses paid by troubled insurance giant AIG. Obama on back foot as representatives vote to tax bonuses...
View ArticleBy: wierdo
I'd say $500k is a perfectly reasonable CEO salary for a moderately large company. I don't think it's getting silly until total cash and stock compensation is somewhere north of a million or two. $40...
View ArticleBy: yonation
not registered to jetblue at all.. seems like a [fantastic] yes-men kinda hoax...
View ArticleBy: five fresh fish
You seem to have lost me there. The CEO of a multimillion dollar company was a) only getting paid $500,000 a year before 2008, and b) still took a 50% pay cut to 250,000 a year. That is a pretty...
View ArticleBy: polyhedron
I agree that getting these bonuses back is an important symbolic gesture. The American (and thus global) financial system has been operating with unrivaled impropriety. Those who desperately seek to...
View ArticleBy: danny the boy
YES, AIG bonuses are in the bigger picture, completely stupid and not particularly relevant. But so many times in the past it's been the trivial that gets people hanged and revolutions started. To...
View ArticleBy: danny the boy
It's like you think those of us enraged by the bonus issue simply don't understand that they amount to a relatively small sum of money, or that they are contractually obligated to pay it, or that it is...
View ArticleBy: flotson
BOO web 2.0 marketing viruses and their patsies/shills. YAY mefites for talking about something relevant anyway. I'm all for taxing the f*** out of these guys. Or publishing their names, pictures, and...
View ArticleBy: jim in austin
I saw chapters 2 and 3 as featuring a sort of Americanized Upper Class Twit.
View ArticleBy: Michael Roberts
would you prefer renegade corporations that can pick and choose which laws to follow based on the mood of the nation? OOOoooh, that explains why the auto workers didn't have to renegotiate their...
View ArticleBy: weston
Special 100% tax brackets that single out these few people [is] unconstitutional. Certainly a tax code or any law that singles out people would be. I am not a constitutional scholar or lawyer, but I...
View ArticleBy: mrzarquon
Actually, from the articles in the filing, the Dave Barger is still making $500k after all his other bonuses / incentives, and he is not the founder. (He does however have 4 million or so in unused...
View ArticleBy: weston
as a founder, the CEO's salary isn't the bulk of his compensation. I'm wrong about this. The CEO who had his salary cut is not founder David Neeleman, it's the guy who took the post in 2007, David...
View ArticleBy: substrate
I hate that the weasels that helped orchestrate this mess are getting bonuses but I don't want Obama to start doing unconstitutional things to single them out. The bonuses have been written into...
View ArticleBy: idiopath
The video is funny. This OMGCEOBONUS crap completely ignores the actual problems, and needless to say, offers no viable solution to them. As long as we are foaming in outrage about specific one time...
View ArticleBy: askmehow
i didn't think the ads were funny b/c they felt disingenous regardless of the % cut in salary, $250k/yr is a boatload of money. as weston notes probably doesn't represent the bulk of his compensation....
View ArticleBy: weston
Obama administration is not in the legislative branch Obviously they can't just pass a law themselves. On the other hand, the presidency has an enormous influence on the legislative process. Combined...
View ArticleBy: dhartung
If you didn't watch them because they're, well, ads -- they're funny, well, ads. In the context of ads. Which they are.
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