At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday.
via nytimes.com
I never thought I'd see the day where people in the U.S. - the same country that was founded upon the principles of the Boston Tea Party - would get indignant over this.
What's wrong with the owner/founder/CEO of a business making more money from that business than the federal government makes from that business?
I'm actually shocked that 475 of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 are more lucrative for the federal government than they are for the folks who run the company.
