100 leading progressive (??) figures from across the centre-left, civil society and from all corners of the UK, have today called on the government to establish a High Pay Commission to curb excessive pay. We urge you to also back the campaign.
The statement co-ordinated by Compass has support from Brendan Barber (General Secretary, TUC), Jon Cruddas (Labour MP for Dagenham) and Vince Cable (Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor).
What sort of Liberalism is that then Vince ?, just drop the word Liberal, you are just as coercive, tax & spend and big State loving as Labour.
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There is very little difference between LibDems and Labour on the main issues - when are these idiots going to wake up and realise that the highest paid people (who are highly paid because they are generally THE BEST AT THEIR JOB), are going to just leave the country - afterall, they are the ones that can afford to.
Why do they try to alienate the most productive people in society? Do they think that our economy would improve if we can't attract the people that are best at what they do?
During this Labour Recession, we should be trying to attract people with money and not alienate them.
And how about footballers? I'd consider them to be some of the most ridiculously overpaid people there are, but as long as they are paid by private businesses and not the tax payer then I don't care.
B***S*** like this really gets my goat.
Gav: "the highest paid people (who are highly paid because they are generally THE BEST AT THEIR JOB), are going to just leave the country"
a) The highest PAID people are the people we call fat cats, they are highly paid because they sit at the top of their own particular coercive system, they are generally incompetent, as our current situation attests...
b) ...these people are NOT going to leave the country because they are not independent businessmen, they are government officials and company heads who got there through a combination of their social network/family and/or an MBA course: the purpose of which was to buy a high-paid job.
c) High EARNERS are a little different, within this group are the entrepreneurs, those who started their own businesses rather than slimed their way up a hierarchy backstabbing their colleagues to get there (G Brown etc). The high earners might just take their business abroad. The high earners, the innovators, the entrepreneurs, the independent businesspeople are also known as the "wealth creators". The corporate heads are rarely genuine wealth creators, they are often just leeches. The governmental heads are ALWAYS wealth destroyers and leeches on the public purse.
The announcement highlighted above is a reaction to the excesses - the failures - of a coercive system, not a straightforward attack on liberty. True, this is no way to deal with the problem, and no doubt they will fail to respect the distinction I have made above, but it is not as simple as people seem to think. ESPECIALLY if you (the government) actually OWN the companies who are paying the ludicrous salaries to rubbish CEOs.
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