Posted at 3:00 p.m.
The nerve to compare yourself to each other
How much does it take to satisfy the pecuniary demands without funds (!) of these leaders who, finally, collect the money of the many soldiers at the front? Moreover, they have the nerve to compare themselves to each other, to know how much they should demand in order to be in a (vicious, if I dare say) circle of happy couple. Where there is man, there is, and forever it seems, manhood. How can they live like this without remorse, I cannot say. A little lobster and a glass of vintage wine with that?
Jacques Villeneuve, Saint-Hyacinthe
Focus on tax loopholes
We should stop talking about these insane salaries; we will never have power over the boards of directors that authorize them. However, we collectively have the means to make them pay the necessary taxes. Everyone was discussing last week the remuneration of the president of the Caisse de depot, but no one thought of the tax loopholes he could use. Will he receive a T4 of more than 6 million? Will he pay a tax of 3 million? No, never, but it is at this level that citizens can intervene. When Quebec offers such salaries, Quebec and Ottawa should AUTOMATICALLY claim half without tax tricks.
Claude Samson
And the contracts of the athletes…
Let’s add the sports contracts for 22 minutes of presence on the ice per game, three times a week.
Hugues Bergeron
Vain anger
Apart from freaking out over the findings of extravagant CEO pay, what can workers do about it? Of course, you cite possible solutions, but who will dare to impose them to put these greedy CEOs of this world apart on a diet? I remain skeptical…
Andree Bastien
The end of capitalism
For every million earned, it’s $144.15 an hour, 24 hours a day, even on vacation… What human needs that? These are the same people who will overcome the capitalist system…
Jacques Dextradeur
Let’s talk about the Caisse de depot
In your editorial on CEO compensation, you fail to mention the compensation of our CEOs, and more specifically those of the CDPQ! I have always found it indecent that the people responsible for making our money grow (CDPQ, banks, investment funds) consider that because they manage a lot of money, they are entitled to a certain return on the gains made. But it’s even more indecent when these people manage the money of an entire population that has no say in how it is managed. Yes, our CDPQ performed well during COVID-19, but who didn’t? Was this really exceptional management? Let me doubt it!
Jean-Marc Da Pozzo
The rumble of the base
When the difference between leaders and rank-and-file workers approaches 300 to 1, there is a serious problem and the rank-and-file rumble is about to explode. A dramatic rise in inflation could well spur a revolution from the base.
George Picard
Voting sends a message
You vote CAQ, Liberal or Conservative, don’t be surprised. If at least you sent a message by voting a little more NDP, QS or PQ, the big capitalists would still have a little embarrassment. I am not advocating the socialization of the economy, but rather the use of taxation to return most of their money to the coffers of the State, which will redistribute it in the form of services to the population. The big bosses don’t need 20 million to live luxuriously, these big numbers are mainly used to show off: “My salary is even bigger than yours, huh! »
Bernard Terreault
Trouble on the horizon
I simply cannot believe the lack of foresight and foresight – and incidentally the inaction – of our governments with regard to the risk of social chaos linked to the concentration of wealth. The wealthiest, who now have the ability to influence society as they please, are becoming more powerful than our governments. New social unrest, even more serious than those we know today, are likely to be expected in the future…
Martin Bergeron, Hebertville
nauseating
We hear a lot about the spiral of rising wages and inflation… but never in relation to the sky-high salaries of corporate executives. Their salaries have a significant impact on the cost of products, the cost of living and often increase when they lay off, so when they reduce the payroll, in difficult times, workers who do not have, them, generally no power over the matter. Oddly enough, their wages don’t drop when their company’s stock plummets. These salaries are simply not justified. It’s a time bomb (the rise of populism has something to do with it) that generates individuals with oversized egos, generally extremely polluting by their way of life, out of step with reality, reluctant to support democracies . Money doesn’t smell, but associated individuals do, and it can be quite foul, thank you.
Michael Basque