The problem is the rich are over paid for what they do.
Big businesses should cut their pay
and
pass the savings onto the customers.
That is the free market economic stimulous.
Republicans have been forced into a Hobson's choice of either letting the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone or agreeing to a tax hike on the top 2 percent of income earners (not to be confused with "the rich," who have already made, inherited or married their money).
If Republicans object to the Democrats' hitting job creators with a tax hike, three things will happen: Taxes will go up for everyone; Republicans will be seen as the "party of the rich"; and the inevitable economic collapse will be blamed on Republicans.
If Democrats were merely trying to raise...
So you don't really believe in the free market.
So you want to tax the rich.
So you want to overpay CEOs.
So you are just a reactionary.
Free market salaries are driven by the free market. People's skills are compensated according to percieved value. That's why baseball players in the bigs get millions and very little in the triple As.
Union & government workers are "overpaid" in so far as they use force and thuggery to demand wages beyond the value they supply ... ergo Teachers in Chicago make more than the average Chicagoan. THAT's "overpaid" bro.
Wages are determined by the free market. And you apparently miss that as you say "So you don't really believe in the free market."
Those that own the company determine how much a CEO is paid. And the consumer essentially decides what a company can charge for a product. We call it "supply and demand pricing".