You may all remember that back in the 90's, the big government lawmakers made it non-deductible for businesses to claim more than $1 million in salaries as a tax deduction.
The legislators sold this idea as one that was correct; give the incentive pay in stock.
Their thinking was that this would stop the big pay packages for executives. The executives then received and liked getting stock incentives instead. As businesses improved their profitability, they got more and more in stock values instead, like it should be.
The government said that this was the proper way to pay incentives.
Now the stock paid incentives that kicked in at various targeted big businesses, like AIG, Merrill, etc., are the new target of the government which set this program up in the first place.
Will the hypocrisy never end?
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