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Lu Powell wrote:

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Yes, Richard, I know. There are businesses that are operated
properly...for their owners.

Sorry, I don't trust "business" to "do the right thing" for anyone
other than its immediate owners and top executive employees. I might
start believing again if corporate salaries were limited to, oh,
maybe 10 times the salary of the average non-executive worker at
each company.


Like it or not, business and capitalism is the lifeblood of our
country and economy.
The focus should be on eradicating special interests, crooked
politicians, greed in corporations and in the enforcement of laws.

The alternative is government controlled commerce and economy. Is
that what you advocate?

Eisboch

Richard, how do you propose eradicating the greed of corporations and
their senior employees? I know one way...mandatory nearly confiscatory
taxes on ALL income, whatever the source, above a certain amount,
strict limitations on bonuses, and no deferral of income.

That might lead to a corporate executive class as incompetent as the
one we have now, though, eh?

That's classic Marxism, Harry. Your true colors are showing.



Sorry, Lu, but it isn't. Obviously, you don't know anything about
Marxism, either. Or are you disputing that our corporate executive class
is incompetent?

Oh, but it is. See Eisboch's brilliant reply. Ditto for me.


You can hide behind Eisboch, who is no dummy, but you are. You claimed a
statement of mine was "classic Marxism." I say this again: you have no
idea what "classic Marxism" is.

Oh, but I do. It was the subject of a grad school course I took in 1971. To
complete my term paper I studied the entire Communist Manifesto. Much of
your rants have their parallels in that document. Have you read it at all?