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TAXING THE CEOs & OTHER HOARDERS to JUMPSTART THE ECONOMY NOW--THIS IS A NO BRAINER

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By Kevin Stoda, write-in and online candidate for USA Senate

Last week, I reported to you that in an interview on DN, entitled "Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession" that CEOs that fire the most people get the best pay and bonuses in America

http://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/in-2009-ceos-of-the-fifty-corporations-responsible-for-the-biggest-layoffs-were-paid-an-average-12-million%e2%80%9442-percent-more-than-the-average-pay-for-the-standard-poor%e2%80%99s-500/

In my article, I re-stated the quote from an interview on DN: "[T]he CEOs of the fifty corporations responsible for the biggest layoffs were paid an average $12 million--42 percent more than the average pay for the Standard & Poor's 500" in 2009.

Now, according to Democracy Now {DN}, "There's a battle looming in Washington over the future of tax cuts for the wealthy. The cuts enacted by President Bush are set to expire at the end of the year. Republicans, led by House Minority Leader John Boehner, have called for extending the $700 billion in tax breaks for the rich. But President Obama strongly criticized the GOP and emphasized his opposition to extending the tax cuts."

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