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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (125420)11/23/2009 11:00:56 AM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 542149
 
IMO, "fairness" is a rather juvenile concept for someone doing that well in our society ($250k/year). Is it fair that a CEO makes 10,000 times the wages of some of his underlings? I guess I can understand 100 times, but the rest? I'm okay with a high marginal tax rate on that kind of compensation. To keep that level of income and not be bonked on the head for it, possibly losing the intellectual gifts that allowed them to pull that salary in the first place, they have to buy "society insurance" through taxation.

My wife and I just bought books so the kids in her classroom can have a supply of contemporary books on a variety of subjects. These were purchased at the public library store, but were donated by others. Some of these are permanently "borrowed" (I view it as "given"). It this "fair"? I just consider it a donation which we don't write off on our taxes, but it promotes education. My company won't match me like they do on their United Way drives, but I'm not going to add United Way to my list of charities when our family is already subsidizing education. Besides, this book donation is a direct charity - there is no fraud, fund-raising or executives that steal the benefit from the recipient.
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