highest-paid ceos in america, 25 of those highest-paid ceos took home more money last year than their company paid in federal taxes. the 25 ceos averaged, they averaged, $16.7 million while their companies not only paid no taxes, no federal taxes, they actually ended up collecting tax refunds averaging $304 million. ford paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $26 million. verizon paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $18 million. prudential paid no federal taxes and paid its ceo $16 million. ge paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $15 million.
shows that of the 100 highest-paid ceos in america, 25 of those highest-paid ceos took home more money last year than their company paid in federal taxes. the 25 ceos averaged, they averaged, $16.7 million while their companies not only paid no taxes, no federal taxes, they actually ended up collecting tax refunds averaging $304 million. ford paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $26 million. verizon paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $18 million. prudential paid no federal taxes and paid its ceo $16 million.
are now paid more money than the companies pay in federal taxes. a new study out today by the institute of policy studies shows that of the 100 highest-paid ceos in america, 25 of those highest-paid ceos took home more money last year than their company paid in federal taxes. the 25 ceos averaged, they averaged, $16.7 million while their companies not only paid no taxes, no federal taxes, they actually ended up collecting tax refunds averaging $304 million. ford paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $26 million. verizon paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $18 million. prudential paid no federal taxes and paid its ceo $16 million. ge paid no federal taxes last year and paid its ceo $15 million.
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this is outrageous. and as they are sitting there protecting the wealthy, and as they are sitsing there, the average pay of these ceos was 16.7 million and we have speaker boehner when the president says i will come forth, with the jobs plan, he turns into a little annie and starts singing tomorrow, tomorrow, i love you tomorrow, and the democrats that want to be unleashed on the president, well i m unleaching you on speaker boehner. thank you reverend. it is clear, that those ceos have done extremely well. those are the people that republicans have been supporting and sometimes i wonder whether or not they are actually, they forget about their own constituents who are out of work and who are looking for jobs. and so, yeah, we ve got major issues here. on the one hand you ve got the ceos making all this money. by the way, of those 25 companies, reverend, five of