Richie,a couple of points. Americans do not begrudge extraordinary rewards for extraordinary results. However many of these bonusses are given to people who have failed in their jobs.(see Pfizer for one example). Bank of America just gave 5 million in bonusses to 2 people who failed.
And then to quote you"pile on taxes and regulations". What taxes,GE pays none,oil companies recieve subsidies and on and on and the regulations must really be hurting business because they are showing record profits. Throw in the financial reports by the biggest banks today and maybe there should be a revolution because these people are laughing at middle America.