U.S. Republican party presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said on Sunday high salaries paid to chief executives were a "joke" and a "disgrace" and said these were often approved by company boards stacked with the CEO's friends.
Trump, a real estate mogul who has said he plans to use his net worth of $8.7 billion to fund his White House campaign, said in an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" that it was hard to tackle the question of corporate pay because too many corporate boards lacked independence.
"It's disgraceful. Sometimes the boards rule but I would probably say it's less than 10 percent; and you see these guys making enormous amounts of money. It's a total and complete joke," he said.
Well, I mean, yeah. He's not going to have a serious chance at winning the election if he comes out saying "mmmm nah, they deserve to be earning billions of dollars a year. And they deserve for that number to only get bigger."
The man doesn't have a platform so much as a collection of platitudinous ideas that appeal to the lowest common denominator. His supporters say they "appreciate his straight talk," when they mean to say they appreciate the fact that he keeps the discussion on their basic, generally uninformed, level.
No need to applaud. There's no revolutionary thought here.
The man doesn't have a platform so much as a collection of platitudinous ideas that appeal to the lowest common denominator. His supporters say they "appreciate his straight talk," when they mean to say they appreciate the fact that he keeps the discussion on their basic, generally uninformed, level.
No need to applaud. There's no revolutionary thought here.
