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Trump calls big CEO salaries 'disgraceful'
By Eliza Collins
09/13/15, 11:50 AM EDT

Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump says it’s “disgraceful” how much money CEOs of big companies are making, but there's not much you can do about it.
Calling into CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Trump was told by host John Dickerson that CEO pay is now 350 times the average worker.
“It does bug me," Trump said. "It’s very hard if you have a free enterprise system to do anything about that. You know, the boards of companies are supposed to do it, but I know companies very well and the CEO puts in all of his friends.”
He cited Macy’s, which cut ties with him after his controversial comments about immigrants from Mexico, saying, “They put in their friends as the head of the company and they get whatever they want.”
“You see these guys making these enormous amounts of money, and it’s a total and complete joke,” Trump said.
He also reiterated his charge that hedge fund managers are getting away with murder. They're all supporting, and therefore controlling, GOP rival Jeb Bush and and Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump said.
“They pay very little tax, and that’s going to end when I come out with my plan in about three weeks, could be sooner than that…We’re going to be reducing taxes for the middle class. But for the hedge fund guys, they’re going to be paying up,” Trump said.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/trump-ceo-213584#ixzz3lglMkK5U


Is Trump being a misogynistic, racist, socialist GOP nominee?

Now now, you guys should concentrate your efforts into raising
enough money to bail some of your candidates out of Prison so
they can stay in the race.

Trump is not a Socialist, just look at his bank account. He
is worse than a Socialist to you guys, he is hated for what
he has done...

He has been successful in America.

And it now sounds like he wants to punish those successful people. Hedge Fund managers are people too, yaknow.

Now, now. You know as well as I do that if you take away a
quarter of the wealth a successful American has EARNED, he will simply do it again by EARNING it back, plus some.

It has been the American way since the beginning, until the recent "Gimme Gimme Generation" made success a bad thing.

I believe that Trump is a guy who will say absolutely anything to get elected, and i truly believe it will eventually be his downfall.

I believe that he will get caught up in this stuff, like Romney did last time around. I just hope that it is before the primaries do too far. This guy is a disaster just waiting to happen if he wins the nomination. Once all of his constantly changing ummm ....evolving positions come out .... this election could turn into a rout, because all of the angry comments Trump could make cannot refute the things he has said, and supported in the past.

Republicans are so desperate for a guy who can out-self-promote the Democrats that they are not really taking a hard look at Trump. They hear him spouting off all the time, and fighting the powers most Republicans dislike, like the media ...... and he seems to be saying what a lot are feeling. I agree that we need to control our border, and I would love to see our border patrol doubled, or even tripled in size. If my math is right, with a 40 hour workweek, and 2000 miles to cover, the current 17,500 agents on the southern border equal about 2 per mile. Want to increase employment? There's a program that would help 2 problems.

However, in the end, Trump is really about anger more than anything else. Anger rarely wins. It can be a useful tool, and can get people fired up, but even people who are angry want to have hope. I see no hope in anything that Trump says.

Every word is a desperate yet calculated asterisk.