Poll: Tax hikes on rich the first step toward balancing budget
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Poll: Tax hikes on rich the first step toward balancing budgetSource: The Hill
Date: January 3, 2011
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Increased taxes on high earners should be the first step toward balancing the federal budget, a new poll suggested Monday.
Raising taxes on the rich beats out cuts to defense spending, Medicare and Social Security as U.S. adults' top preference on how to close the deficit, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.
Sixty-one percent of Americans said that increasing taxes to the wealthy should be the first step toward balancing the budget.
Academics critical of skyrocketing pay for CEOs
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Academics critical of skyrocketing pay for CEOsSource: thestar.com
Date: January 3, 2011
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“It’s just breathtaking,” Hugh Mackenzie, economist for the Ottawa-based non-profit research group, said in an interview. “The skyrocketing level of executive pay in Canada and the U.S. is the primary factor that lies behind growing income inequality.”
The typical explanation — that companies need to offer their chief executive millions in order to attract, keep and motivate a suitable leader — doesn’t hold water, Mackenzie said.
“You could ask how motivating is it for the average employee, who is actually the person who generates the income for the corporation, to see that their CEO is making 300 times what they are. I would think that would be kind of demotivating.”
