Now this is something I can understand and even go along with. And once you read this, you should think like I do. That maybe this is a better alternative to the Obama plan of limiting CEO pay, which will be hard to sell to companies. This is written by the president of NetFlix.

I’M the chief executive of a publicly traded company and, like my peers, I’m very highly paid. The difference between salaries like mine and those of average Americans creates a lot of tension, and I’d like to offer a suggestion. President Obama should celebrate our success, rather than trying to shame us or cap our pay. But he should also take half of our huge earnings in taxes, instead of the current one-third.

Then, the next time a chief executive earns an eye-popping amount of money, we can cheer that half of it is going to pay for our soldiers, schools and security. Higher taxes on huge pay days can finance opportunity for the next generation of Americans.

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On this date in 1959, a three-passenger plane carrying rock ‘n roll legend and Lubbock native Buddy Holly, as well as singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all three. The crash also killed the pilot, Roger Peterson.

The day was immortalized as the “The Day the Music Died” in Don McLean’s 1971 hit “American Pie.”
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At the time, Holly, Valens and Richardson were part of the Winter Dance Party tour that went from Milwaukee to smaller towns in Iowa and Minnesota. Shortly after the tour began, the heater went out in one of the tour buses, and one drummer suffered from severe frostbite on his feet. As he was hospitalized, Holly and Valens played drums.

The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa was never intended to be a stop on the tour, but promoters, hoping to fill an open date, called the manager of the ballroom at the time and offered him the show. He accepted and the date of the show was set for February 2.

By the time Buddy Holly arrived at the ballroom that evening, he was frustrated with the tour bus and told his bandmates that, once the show was over, they should try to charter a plane to get to the next stop on the tour, Moorhead, Minnesota. According to VH-1′s Behind the Music: The Day the Music Died, Holly was also upset that he had run out of clean undershirts, socks, and underwear. He needed to do some laundry before the next performance, and the local laundromat in Clear Lake was closed that day.

Richardson had developed a case of the flu during the tour and asked one of Holly’s bandmates, Waylon Jennings, for his seat on the plane; Jennings agreed to give up the seat. When Holly learned that Jennings wasn’t going to fly, he said, “Well, I hope your ol’ bus freezes up.” Jennings responded, “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes.” This exchange of words, though made in jest at the time, haunted Jennings for the rest of his life.

Ritchie Valens had never flown in a small plane before, and asked Holly’s remaining bandmate on the plane, Tommy Allsup, for the seat. Tommy said “I’ll flip ya for the remaining seat.” Contrary to what is seen in biographical movies, that coin toss did not happen at the airport shortly before takeoff, nor did Buddy Holly toss it. The toss happened at the ballroom shortly before departure to the airport, and the coin was tossed by a DJ who was working the concert that night. Valens won a seat on the plane.

Dion DiMucci of Dion & The Belmonts, who was the fourth headline performer on the tour, was approached to join the flight as well; however, the price of $36 was too much. Dion had heard his parents argue for years over the $36 rent for their apartment and could not bring himself to pay an entire month’s rent for a short plane ride.