Featured letter: Well-off playing with the less fortunate
The April 16 article, "N.J. CEOs make 121 times more money, on average, than you," gave me lots to ponder on the econ...
Featured letter: Well-off playing with the less fortunate The April 16 article, "N.J. CEOs make 121 times more money, on average, than you," gave me lots to ponder on the econ... Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/QlWKOY
ASB Published 6:52 a.m. ET April 19, 2014
This artwork by Nancy Ohanian relates to the cost of living and the struggling middle class.(Photo: Artwork by Nancy Ohanian )
The April 16 article, "N.J. CEOs make 121 times more money, on average, than you," gave me lots to ponder on the economic state of New Jersey. Does a CEO making 121 times the income of his worker have the same or more "skin in the game"? Does he pay 121 times the federal taxes, or more?
Is the game "Chutes and Ladders"? Is a union job a ladder and a pink slip a chute? Was the CEO born with ladders and a kid in Newark born without? Even Gov. Chris Christie fled the crime-ridden streets of 1960s Newark with the help of a ladder from his Italian grandmother. He never could have been a Livingston athlete if he remained behind, could he? And his taxpayer-financed lawyers certainly have ladders instead of a chute — which the typical worker would have received.
Folks born with ladders seem to feel that those without ladders just aren't in the game. If the game is to tax these folks, to knock out some steps in the ladder so that a chute will follow, the game is rigged.
Without a good outside shot, a windfall of capital or a union wage earner in the family, the least good government could do is provide safe streets and good schools, which are two ladders on the way to an education. If the CEO making 121 times the income of his worker feels "oppressed," maybe he's just ungrateful for the ladders handed to him by this nation.
Peter Klymasz
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