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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh brings forth motion to tackle rising costs, ‘unchecked corporate greed’ (www.thestar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The proposal is an extra tax on corporations that pay their executives more than 50 times their average worker. The tax would range from 0.5% to 5% depending on the disparity in pay.

I like the idea, but I can only imagine if this was put into place that executives would come up with all kinds of clever schemes to pretend they don't make as much as they really do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

pretend they don’t make as much as they really do.

This is already a problem. At least a change will take some time for them to work around. The Skeevy Bastards...