Boy, have we been pissed on!

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have in recent years gone not to investment in manufacturing and employment but to stock buybacks, dividends and executive pay mainly in the form of stock purchase options. It is insidious - executive pay is strongly linked to stock price so the incentive is to spend tax savings on those stock buybacks and dividend increases.

Hence the obscene, ever-increasing ratios between executive and worker pay. That plus these execs sit on each others boards of directors (who determine pay levels) so the relationship is incestuous as well.