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From former DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison:
Posted on: February 19, 2019 at 16:17:15 CT
Spanky KU
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“No, I did not make a joke about maximum wage, I made a statement about maximum wage . . . If you were to say, look, if you make more than twenty times more than the people who actually make the products and do the services of your company, then we’re going to tax you more—we’re going to tax you at all....
...I wasn’t joking about having a maximum wage. Why shouldn’t there be a maximum wage? I remember when Ford, GM, and Chrysler came for $25 billion to rescue the American auto industry. Okay, well how much does the guy who runs Toyota make? $28 million a year.
OK stop right there. Where did you get that greedy? And how did you create a philosophy that says [it’s right] to protect your greed, so that if I say you shouldn’t be that greedy, you get to call me a name? Because they do . . . If we say your incalculable greed is not acceptable, we get called communists. Why not call them what they are, which is avaricious and greedy?”
...I wasn’t joking about having a maximum wage. Why shouldn’t there be a maximum wage? I remember when Ford, GM, and Chrysler came for $25 billion to rescue the American auto industry. Okay, well how much does the guy who runs Toyota make? $28 million a year.
OK stop right there. Where did you get that greedy? And how did you create a philosophy that says [it’s right] to protect your greed, so that if I say you shouldn’t be that greedy, you get to call me a name? Because they do . . . If we say your incalculable greed is not acceptable, we get called communists. Why not call them what they are, which is avaricious and greedy?”
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From former DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison: - Spanky KU - 2/19 16:17:15