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Executive compensation - how to get companies to lower the amount of compensation they pay their executives... In times past, income levels over a certain threshhold (these days it could be 5million... 10 million) is taxed at a VERY high percentage, say 90%. This effectively limits the compensation to reasonable levels because anything over a certain amount goes to the government. There's no incentive to demand high incomes and golden parachutes if it will be taxed so high. Since these tax practices have been removed, executive compensation has skyrocketed.

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Welcome to Portland, Mark! Here, it's not so 'unique' to not bey newspapers in order to cut back on paper usage. That is actually a common factor here where there is awareness about environmental effects of all of the things that people do every day - like getting newspapers delivered daily.

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