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Unfair advantages for the wealthy

This pertains to the headlines “CEO pay climbed faster last year up 8.5 percent.” The AFL-CIO office of investment claims the CEO’s for major U.S. companies make 347 times more than the average worked in this country.

The highest paid executive in this years survey was about $9.8 million of which 88 million of that was from stock and option awards.

The second highest paid executive made $68.6 million, the third made $41 million, the fourth made $37 million and the fifth made $33 million. These figures are astronomical and hard to believe.

Do they pay taxes or do they do what President Trump has been doing and not paying taxes for the past 18 years?

We workers have laws that cover paying federal taxes. Most of us have no write-offs when we file our taxes. What’s with the more fortunate group of millionaires and the wealthy; they evidently have separate laws to abide by.

If we are living in a free country, why show favoritism to the wealthy and not the working class Americans and the senior citizens on social security who are locked into receiving poverty level monthly income because our government claims the cost of living hasn’t gone up year after year.

If we are living in a democracy that claims all men are created equal and ruled by its people, why are there such severe policies being practiced that are utterly prejudicial towards a large assemblage of Americans, when we should all be in the same group and should be treated equally among our peers as being one of the same.

Weldon C. Cohick Jr.

Linden

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