Not only does the IRS tax codes need to be ripped out by its root, and most politicians taken by their ears, former and present, and forced to live in homes along the Mexican border, and inside the most crime ridden cities in this country for first hand experience to see what needs to be done to end gangs, and their violence.
Then bused to Silicon valley, and on to corporations like Msft, and Oracle, if they survived?, and then given a walk thru to see how their treasury issues stock to them, and how its sold into the open market so they can steal as much as possible from anyone directly or indirectly invested with them.
Maybe then they will get it!. These PT companies are not piggy banks for them, but rather ATM's filled with money from shareholders..............Not money they earn from generated revenues but rather stocks gifted them by those who are suppose to be the Stewards representing the shareholders.
They should be paid with checks and deductions taken from them like any other employee within these companies. But maybe first they should be taken to court by their ears to discover if everyone who owns a share should also have a voice about what goes on within them?.
Private businesses grow thru earnings, and owners, and employee's are paid according to what the business can afford, what makes them any different?, other than the fact that they were given capital to grow their business with they first went public, and many times after. The kind of thing private business owners struggle with, they have to work to make their businesses grow.