CRAZY: DNC Deputy Chair Wants to Impose ‘Maximum Wage’ on Corporate Execs  

Monica Sanchez | March 23, 2018
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Taking the national debate over higher minimum wages to another level, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison wants to impose a “maximum wage” on corporate executives so as to level out the playing field with rank-and-file employees.

"Why do [CEO’s] have to make more than 21 times your average worker? The CEO of McDonald's. You're telling me they can't make it on ... I don't know, if the workers are making $15 an hour ... Why can't the CEO make $300 an hour?" Rep. Ellison (D-Minn.) said in a recent sit-down with "Truth Out" as a part of its anti-Trump “Interviews for Resistance.”

He criticized corporate executives as “avaricious and greedy,” calling them "bad actors" whose “interests and the interests of the company are not aligned.”

“I wasn't joking about having a maximum wage,” said Ellison. “Why shouldn't there be a maximum wage? … Your interests and the interests of the company are not aligned. To you, the company is just something, just like toilet tissue: You wipe some with it and throw it away when you don't need it.”

He continued, “Where did you get that greedy? And how did you create a philosophy that says that to protect your greed, so that if I say you shouldn't be that greedy you get to call me a name? Because [you] do, [you] call us names because we say your incalculable greed is not acceptable.

“That's fine. We get to be called communists when we say that about them. The truth is, why don't we call them what they are, which is avaricious and greedy? And not tolerate it?”

He said that, with a maximum wage in place, it would be a “policy benefit” for CEO’s to give their workers higher wages.

“If you want to pay yourself more than 20 times your average worker, that's fine, but if you give the workers an increase as you get them, then maybe we'll think about that in terms of some sort of a policy benefit,” said Ellison.

Laura Ingraham on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday said that she doesn’t think Ellison “understands what he’s saying there.”

"We’re going to keep following Ellison’s quest for a ‘maximum wage.’ In the meantime, we think there should be a maximum term in office for people with ideas as stupid as this one,” she fired.

(Cover Photo: Flickr / Lorie Shaull) 

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