And with governmental power also comes profitability of lobbying. You don’t need to go to the marketplace to compete when you can get what you want through legislation. If the government didn’t have the power to change the playing field, we’d see a lot fewer dollars spent trying to sway politicians who couldn’t do anything to benefit large corporations anyway.

And making a million dollars or however much is not stealing from the poor, nor making your wealth on the backs of anyone else. Tax them out of existence and see how many investors we have left or how many jobs we have to go around.

I’m not going to defend CEOs. I don’t know any. I will repeat, however, that taxes should not be a form of punishment. Not everyone who makes over a certain amount of money is engaged in unethical behavior. Taxing hard workers and using that money to benefit those that don’t work as hard or don’t work at all is wrong, any way you cut it. We should not be punishing success in the United States of America. When we go down that road it will indeed be the death of the American idea.

What would you define as unethical CEO behavior? Maybe you forgot that the government was forced to stick it’s nose into the behavior of executives when it created the National Labor Relations Board to insure that the American worker was treated fairly. CEO’s have been fighting it ever since. In some sense CEO’s have created the need for an inflated government.