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This is Why Americans Are So Pissed Off

In 2010, salaries increased for both workers and CEOs. Good news, right? Not when you look at the disparity between how much salaries increased:

At a time most employees can barely remember their last substantial raise, median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 as the executives’ compensation started working its way back to prerecession levels, a USA TODAY analysis of data from GovernanceMetrics International found. Workers in private industry, meanwhile, saw their compensation grow just 2.1% in the 12 months ended December 2010, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But we should definitely give those CEOs a tax cut, and take away benefits from the workers. That makes sense.