It sounds like he is going to take out some of the CEOs from gouging their companies for money.  So I believe the money the company saves from that alone will be enough to take care of additional taxes, haha.  I wish...

EA is making crap games either way.  Since around 2004, they cared more about money than games, and if the jack up the price any more, we can see pirating increase a boat load again.  If you look at the profits of Madden and Maxis games alone, that takes care of the financial need of ALL EA employees other than executive members with bloated salaries anyways.  What was it?  100 million copies of Sims 2?  At an average of $30 a pop that is $3 billion...  Given their great accountants, they only pay a few million in taxes for that.  Given retailer, and cost takes out $1billion.  If average salary is $75,000 a year, they can pay 27,000 employees off of Sims 2 alone.  They have about 8,000 employees, so there is 3 years of pay off of 1 game for their entire company.

Madden sells an average of 5 million companies now in days, after cost, price drop and retailers cut that is prolly around $200 million a year they pull in, which is pay for about $2,700 employees at $75,000 a pop.  Hell, they sold 1 million copies of FIFA 09 in their first week.

Lets give a crude rounding to EA's yearly income to $4 billion a year.  If they pay 8,000 employees equally, that would be $500,000 a year each.  Don't say there are additional cost, because EA also has great accountants that make them not have to pay taxes, AT ALL. (a problem with big companies right there VS government funding)  Even taxed that is $400,000 a person with a bad accountant.  I could see top game designers making that, but artist and programmers are not, and the executive members are cashing in the rest for the most part.

I think I see about $2 billion in income that I bet is going to executive members.  I think they can pay for any tax hikes, and their company can take a dive if they want to force that onto the consumers. (Especially with stupid projects like "The Sims: The Movie" and "Spore Animated Series")

That's an easy one. Creative types including actors, artists, and musicians are (generalizing here) often more touchy feely in their approach to life. "How does that make you feel?" Is a stereotypical catch phrase. Emotional responses to situations take precedent over rational responses (except where actual "rationalization" is involved to justify actions). This is the viewpoint most often identified with classic modern "Liberalism." Conservatives, by contrast, are more typically identified with phrases like "What do you think of that?" A rational, as opposed to emotional response. Most Liberals lean Democratic. Most Conservatives lean Republican.

I'm certain it's more complicated than that, including things like making choices that appear to make you fit better with a particular social group, or not wanting to be labeled as a "hater" or a "bigot" even though you make choices based on reasoned thought rather than emotions.

--Verbinator

Artist and game designer who is NOT fooled by claims of "Change."