Imagine a world where combined C-suite salaries were capped at the tax burden a company owes past a certain point. I think that would be incredibly funny to see the conflict of interest at play. Want your accounting/legal department to research tax loopholes to exploit? Sure thing, but it's coming straight out of your paycheck!

Oh, you "had a bad year"? Probably shouldn't be taking home a hundred million dollars then.

Combined with a "top pay can't make more than x times the salary of the lowest paid employee" with the exception being the tax thing, I could see it being a great double bind into making companies either pay their workers more or actually pay their share in taxes.

I know it would basically never happen in the US but a girl can dream

Gotta be careful how you position any reforms; if I start my own company with a few employees, I sure don’t want to be paying the government more than I’m taking home.

On the other hand, once the CEO’s salary is greater than the combined total of the 15 lowest paid employees, you’ve got a problem.

Good to know, now lets change it by electing Biden in and hammering the fuck out of them to change our society for the better by eliminating EXTREME WEALTH AND CASUAL CRUELTY!

It’s time.

The progressive nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness and the nonprofit wealth gap watchdog Institute for Policy Studies examined executive pay from 2018 to 2022 at the country’s most successful corporate tax dodgers. They found that at 64 major companies, compensation outstripped their corporate tax bills at least two years out of five.