And, now we actually get this piece of idiocy...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090204/D964VSP00.html
And it is apparently a slippery slope indeed:
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The administration also will propose long-term compensation restrictions even for companies that don't receive government assistance, Obama said.
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What better way to try to get poor people excited than sticking it to the rich, even if doing so has no discernible benefit for the government (these firms don't have federal funds anyways, and from another standpoint you are actually harming total tax revenues because even if the funds are instead paid to everyday employees, the executives are in a much higher tax bracket and would be paying a higher percent of that money to the government in taxes).
But hey, guess it's time we "spread the wealth around".