Private-equity bosses enjoyed another bumper year in 2012, with nine execs receiving over $1B...

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Reg Mig Comments (4)
 
Not so inspiring when you consider that the share holders whose money they are using get a small pittance in comparison .
3 Mar, 08:04 AM Reply Like

Tony Petroski Comments (6373)
 
The copywriter assumes that this inflamatory copy will bring comments from the hoi polloi.

(He's right)

(Speaking for the Hoi Polloi and President Obama):

It's clear that our President's efforts at taxing millionaires and billionaires has been a big disappoint--he told us on Friday that even with the "new revenue we're getting from those millionaires and billionaires," felons were being released because we can no longer afford to prosecute them and citizens would have to stand in line at airports longer because...

...you know, this taxing thing is infectious.

Can't we assess a tax on anyone with a net worth over $200,000? That should take in Schwarzman, Black and, for that matter, Buffett's secretary?

Several thousand more IRS agents should do the trick.

Never forget, it's for the children.
3 Mar, 08:24 AM Reply Like

Topcat Comments (292)
 
And of course, these salaries were probably called "carried interest" and taxed at the capital gains rate of 18%...a very very unfair loophole which Obama wants to fix, among others, but NO says the party of NO.
3 Mar, 10:32 PM Reply Like