Economist Steve Beaman, Society to Advance Financial Education (SAFE Financial) , joins Thom Hartmann. Today - the average American CEO earns 300 times the amount of the average American worker. That’s right - you heard me. 300 times the amount of the average American worker! Amazing as it seems in this day of rising inequality - things weren't always this way. Back in 1965 - for example - CEO's at the nation's 350 biggest companies earned just 20 times more than their employees. But that was when we had sensible tax policies that taxed the supperrich at 91 percent after they started making 20 times what their employees made - which gave them an incentive not to make too much more than their workers. And that was before Reagan changed the rules so that CEO's could be compensated with stock options. Ever since both of these things happened - the CEO to worker pay ratio has skyrocketed. And that raises the question - if we want to make our country prosperous and equal again - and raising taxes or changing the compensation rules is - thanks to Republicans - out of the question - shouldn't we pass a a law mandating that CEO’s cannot earn more than 31 times what their workers make?

Thom discusses the latest from the GOP presidential field with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio, how the USDA may have set the stage for a return of foot and mouth disease with Food & Water Watch’s Patty Lovera, and what the confederate flag means to David Duke with David Duke.

Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Ben Cohen, The Daily Banter & Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research joins Thom Hartmann. On Tuesday - A federal court in Washington DC ruled 11-0 that bans on contributions to federal campaigns by people who have contracts with the federal government are - in fact - constitutional.

Stephen Spaulding, Common Cause joins thom Hartmann. Apparently the Koch Brothers hate National Parks, joins Thom Hartmann. That's right -the privatization of our national parks. Yellowstone - Yosemite - and Acadia all sold off to the highest bidder.