Reply #7: the bottom line [View All]

[progressiveright]

is that you have to be able to take on CEOs to be a viable democratic party, make them criminally responsible for their companies actions, taking action against corporations that become monopolies (back in the day if 3 companies owned more than 40% of the given market, then the market was viewed as non-competitive). There was also an idea for a bill to cap ceo salary at 25 times of the salary of the lowest paying employee (as opposed to current ceos making hundreds if not thousands times as much), so in order for ceos to get really rich they would have to raise the pay of their workers. That will, of course, start cries about democrats being anti-business socialists, which can be countered with rhetoric of democrats fighting for capitalism by allowing competition and being champions of small business.