26 CEOs paid more than Uncle Sam

The problem with over paying CEOs is that they are only concerned about short term gains to boost their salary and then let the company crash and burn as they float away on their golden parachutes. Any CEO can boost the bottom line of a company merely by slashing workers without regard to the long term health of the company. So a CEO can cut jobs to "gain efficiency" pocket the money as a "performance bonus" bail out or sell the company as it flounders and still have enough money for the rest of their lives since their salary will be in the millions.  This is not good for business or the American workers. The CEO gets the money and the workers get the shaft.

Wow. Are we as taxpayers suckers or what? Our taxpayer money goes to bail these rich BSers out, and we get stuck with the bill AND have to make up the shortfall in revenue from them paying no taxes or ,worse yet, the rich and sleazy companies getting millions back in refunds.

Wake up America. Its NOT just a spending problem. There's a major REVENUE problem with these CEOs and their companies bilking the US treasury and taxpayer out of  trillions of tax revenue.

Enough of the crap about too many regulations and the US having the highest tax rates 'cause US companies DO NOT PAY THEM!

End the refunds, subsidies, tax credits and breaks, for all US corporations and institute a minimum alternative tax on all corporations of 10% of revenue. NO OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS. AND, tax all forms of CEO compensation as income.

Here's the problem.  Business and government are in bed together.  It started with Regan when he "downsized" government by outsourcing what had been government functions to private entities.  These private entities make campaign contributions to ensure that the government gravy keeps coming.  And the average taxpayer is generally forgotten.

A good example are college student loans.  The banks make over $1 billion a year to "administer"  the program.  Guess what?  The banks are against making any changes to the way student loans are administered. Certainly they have no incentive to make it run more efficiently.   And they can use the money they make off the program to contribute to both parties to make sure whoever is elected is sympathetic to their demands.

At one time it was only military industrial complex that was growing out of control.  Now it's corporate America.  These are the same people who say they are part of the "I did it myself" club.

There is no discussion of this of course.  Stupid taxpayers fight about which party is better when they are all part of the same corrupt system.

If the Amercian People believed that the Government would use our tax dollars efficiently and effectively, no one would have a problem with taxes being raised across the board. 

BUT... since our "leadership" (both the Right & Left) has shown that they do not have that ability, maybe we need to allow the taxes to go up and cuts in spending take place so that enough of us will get fed up with both the "entitled" and "corporate greed" to the point that we throw them all out and start over with a group that will truly represent the middle class.

Congress panders only to those "without" and to those "with", NOT those that are willing and able!

This article defines exactly why simply raising taxes on the "wealthy" and the "big corporations" won't do a thing. This call to simply raise taxes on them is nothing more than political posturing and blatant class warfare, it will accomplish nothing.

The only way to level the playing field for all of us through the tax system is to:

End the deductions

Close the loopholes

End the subsidies

LOWER the overall rates across the board

Simplify, broaden the base, and streamline the economy for business and individuals alike.

BTW:Would love to see a breakdown of what our politicians in Washington make versus how much of our money they throw away on a daily basis.