Can we primary these guys. They were the only two House Rs to vote for this travesty.

the word “perverse” in this legislation.

“Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.”

Ayn Rand sure had a clear vision of the future, didn’t she?

can’t be trusted:

The vote on this measure illustrates with crystal clarity that no matter how conservative a Democrat might talk, once elected, they have no inclination to respect the free market at all.

Well said.

And that is the democrats goal. To dis-incentive the marketpalce to the extent that companies just close shop and will go fishing.

Less taxes, more unemployment.

The democrats have it all backwards as usual.

“Employees” will just become their own C-corps.

and it still wasn’t clear, is this for all corporations or just the ones who took bailout money?

Why wouldn’t salary caps apply to them?

Many of these people get paid insane amounts of money and go around supporting the most liberal of politicians. I wonder how long they will support politicians who want to tax them to death?

Remember Nixon that other socialist disaster for a president. He instituted wage and price controls too and that resulted in the WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that were so popular during the Ford administration. Carter built on that so that by the time he was finished interest rates were 21% and gas lines were miles long.

Remember what Santana said, “Those who don’t remember history will be forced to repeat it.”

What article of the Constitution or amendment to the Constitution can Congress point to that explicitly empowers the U.S. Congress–or infers that Congress has the authority–to establish through legislation the pay and compensation of private business?

They cannot use the excuse of we bailed them out. Refer to first question and Article One, section eight of the Constitution.

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;–And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Oh, wait, you’re describing the progress of the Socialist agenda. Oh, well, I still think it’s a good name. If I was any good with Photoshop I think I could make a good poster out of that one (of course it would help if I owned the software ) !