As we’ve already seen, Commissioner Steve Novick is cool with right-leaning news outlets bashing his newly passed surtax on corporations that pay their CEOs at least 100 times the salary of the average worker. So much so that Novick agreed to walk into a near-certain ambush by sitting down with Fox News on Friday.
It’s clear host Neil Cavuto (or his team) had researched Portland and Oregon’s financial straits in order to ensnare Novick. The commissioner wasn’t having it, laying out a history of the nation’s growing wealth inequality and quipping: “All I’m trying to do here is make America great again.”
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wake up. Taking money from people and giving it to the fat cats in government doesnt do anything for the common person. People just want jobs and freedom, the tax proposed accomplishes neither. Look how the gov squandered billions on ACA only to increase the insured rate by 2% , but increasing rates and penalties for most people.
Grandstanding over $2.5M which is kind of a drop in the bucket.