Linda McMahon can spend nearly $100 million on two campaigns for the US Senate from Connecticut, but according to Rowdy Roddy Piper, former star wrestler for WWE, her company did not provide medical nor retirement benefits, nor contribute to social security or medicare, nor even at times pay for travel and hotel expenses for some of its wrestlers, whose base salaries are as low as $35,000 annually, in spite of reported earnings of $100 million from a Wrestlemania event.
If this is how Linda McMahon treats her wrestlers and people working for her company, imagine how she would have treated you, her voters?
William Brighenti is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, who operates a public accounting firm, Accountants CPA Hartford, Connecticut, LLC. Bill began his career in public accounting over thirty years ago. He provides a variety of accounting, tax, and QuickBooks consulting services to individuals and business across a wide spectrum of industries. Bill writes an accounting, tax, and QuickBooks blog under the penname, "The Barefoot Accountant".
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