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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:14:11 -0500
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- From: Andrew Allen <E7L8ALL@TOWSONVX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: more responses to andy f.'s comments
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- >>Despite your insistance, I did not advocate a cap on salaries,
- >>is your comprehension of language that poor?
-
- >My comprehension of languages is quite good. I combine it with
- >a comprehension of algebra. Unless we IGNORE relative productivity,
- >a ratio cap is an absolute cap.
-
- If the lowest paid person in a company makes 20k per year at a
- 10:1 ratio top management can make 200k per year and write it all
- off on taxes, every dollar over that they pay an additional (whatever
- the tax rate on their earnings is, say 28%) .28 to the government.
-
- This doesn't mean that they can't pay their top managers more than the
- ratio (a cap) it means that it will cost them more to do so, but I
- would not suspect that it would stop them.
-
- Given that this would produce a fair amount of revenue, the rates
- could drop substantially for both corporations and individuals, the
- point of my proposal was to redistribute the tax burden such that
- businesses pay a larger share than they currently do. (They currently
- pay about 17% of the total tax pie, down from 39% in the 50's when
- the tax code was set up to build the middle class.)
-
- >>Let's go back to the auto factory and compare it to a standard
- >>factory. Both have janitors. Since they do the same exact thing in
- >>both factories, we'll assume that they get the same salary. Given a
- >>salary ratio cap, we have placed an upper limit on management salaries
- >>at both factories.
-
- >Now, there may be one way for both factories to escape this trap.
- >Instead of hiring janitors, they might be able to get away with
- >contracting out for janitor services. Will O'Andy allow that?
-
- It has been happening all along anyway, fine, we just raise the
- minimum wage and find some way to provide the health and retirement
- benefits that business doesn't want to pay for directly.
-
- I suppose you must be in favor of socialized medicine since you don't
- want businesses to take on any obligation for something that provides
- a "social good," right?
-
- >-andy
-
- -other Andy
-