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After the first $1MM. Ten million dollars in a single year would set me, and likely just about anyone else, up comfortably for life twice over.
Don't tie it to a number.
Imagine if they did this back in the 60s, but using numbers.
"1 million??? Thats way too high! If I made 1 million in a year my grandkids could retire from that year. Better make it $100,000. 90% tax after $100,000."
Today because of inflation I would say someone making $100,000 a year is comfortable in luxery, but still earning their pay.
Tie it to a percentage of the curve of what average americans make, and I think you deflate most of inflation. Because if their price for a good is $3.00, and it costs $1.25 worth of wages to make, they could raise that $3 to $5, and only give the workers $0.25 raise, which means now that item costs $1.50 to make, but sells for $5 instead of $3. This rewards ceo's to raise prices disproportionally. Tie it to the curve, and if he raises the price to $5, now he has to pay workers $3.25. Suddenly it's not the ceos getting rewarded for doing that. Suddenly random price hikes to please shareholders are GONE. Which means if you can't stay profitable in a fair market, you cease to exist. You can't just pull a short term band-aid fix to pop a stock price, and ignore consequences. Because now those consequences actually kill your company.
What we would be left with are CEOs who actually RUN their company, rather than just load the numbers. We'd have better products, better wages, and a better life.
But if we tie it to a number, our grandkids will be right back to where we are.
I like the cut of your jib.
Annual CoL adjustments. Done.
Judge fudge the CoL numbers. Easy.
You haven't lost your mind at all. It is squarely atop your shoulders.
Fucking exactly!!
If I wasn't bald I'd have been pulling my hair out of my head when I was seeing all this "fight for fifteen" when trying to argue for a minimum wage increase.
Ok we got that now, something like 10 years later so what is $15/hr now? It's a joke...
Take your current yearly salary, multiply it by however many years you expect to live after retirement + let's say... 10% on top for inflation, + another 10 for medical expenses. Is that number above, or below, $10M? Retirement is fucking expensive and only going up in cost.
I've modeled it a bit more precisely considering actual expenditures as well as social security income, projected inflation and investment returns, etc. $5MM in my pocket right now should set me up just fine.
You keeping it in a mattress or what?
Hahahaha
Oh wait you think I actually have money? Let me laugh harder
But 90% tax means that $10MM becomes $1MM.
Progressive tax brackets. This hypothetical tax is only on money earned over 10M/1M.
I was being as gracious as I could be to illustrate we could fix this if the wealthy in this country were not being SUCH FUCKERS.
You appear to have missed the word "after."
Not in our current tax bracket world.
Why does anyone need more than $10 million?
Why does anyone need over $9 million?
They don't. But at some point, you throw the rich people a bone and tell them they can be rich, just not obscenely rich. I think $10 million is a good cap.