Executive Salaries and Corn Flakes

Re: The $500 corn flake - Unless such is a charitable donation to a worthy cause, to me it's a sign that someone has too much money and (perhaps ) should be paying higher taxes.Re: Business executives salaries being excessive - The question is, to what degree is a variety of cronyism happening?And what stands out to me as being even worse is the retirement "parting gifts". A CEO can get canned for poor performance (his/her or the companies?) and get a multi-million dollar going away present, seemingly fully at the option of the board of directors. An extreme(?) example (no, I'm not supplying a link) is the story of the recently retired CEO/President or whatever of Exxon/Mobile. I heard he got a $400 million parting gift, above and beyond whatever the regular retirement benefits were. This may be legal, but I sure can't see it as being moral.There, I've fired what will probably be my only shot in this topic.Moose