If we the people have to sacrifice, so can the Washington fat cat bureaucrats.
The fallacy that everyone who works in pharma is a rich fat cat is just that, a fallacy.
Democrats love to crow about how Republicans only do the bidding of their Wall Street fat cat buddies.
It includes the kind of fat cat donors who were in the audience.
Leave 10-year Treasuries yielding 2 percent to fat cat institutions who have nowhere to go with their capital which needs investment grade ratings.
If you happen to be a billionaire or corporate Fat Cat, you may have noticed a mob assembled near your headquarters or home recently.
The "fat cat initiative", as it has been called, will be written into the Swiss constitution and apply to all Swiss companies listed on Switzerland's stock exchange.
So, if Mr. Dimon is coming across as another boorish Wall Street fat cat, then the question is: Who will step up to the role of industry spokesman?
In 2012, Sir Stelios railed against what he called "fat cat bonuses" for Easyjet board members, and the year before he campaigned for the removal of one of the directors.
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But then when we sold the company in June of 2005, there were all these fat cat investors who were celebrating and pretending they were part of the team, and they shouldn't have been.
The image of a "fat cat" consultant spending more time on the golf course than on the wards is one that we're likely to see borrowed over the coming few days, as senior doctors reject a new contract.
Nearly two thirds of voters plan to back the so-called anti-fat cat initiative in the referendum that would allow a binding annual shareholder vote on executive compensation for listed companies and block big payouts for new hires and for managers when they leave.
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Yet few Britons tip cashiers, boycott firms with fat-cat bosses or watch second-division football teams.
For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
After all, there's no way the baseball cartel would allow more teams to threaten the paydays of fat-cat owners and players.
It's that we don't really mind ripping off huge fat-cat corporations, which would probably do the same to us given half the chance.
Walking home from school, after breaking up for the summer holidays, she comes across a fat tabby cat called Arnold, who, much to her surprise, introduces himself.
Fat-cat moves that can get you in trouble with the AMT nowadays include having too many children or living in a high-tax state (since state and local taxes are not deductible under the AMT).
Fat-cat executives running investment firms, banks, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical companies might like to curb health care mandates, but that approach certainly doesn't address the needs of Americans looking for decent wages and affordable health care.
They are the first to defend the rights and privileges of boards to award fat-cat salaries, bonuses and pension rights to the select few but they are the first to attack policies that are put in place to merely defend the rights of those that really make those fat cats purr!
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