If the government wants to get it's money back, it has allow the companies to pay the kind of salaries that will attract people that know how to make money. Government sanctioned salary limits are nothing more than a Communist experiment. This is populism at it's ugliest.

Think about it this way. Do you want the government telling you what you can make? By regulating the pay of these companies, which the government is invested in, they are setting a dangerous legal precedent. If this goes through, the precedent is set to regulate pay at any company which is not privately owned i.e. a business that has publicly traded stock. That is a very scary concept and one that the news media is ignoring for some reason.

I wonder just how many people know that when a company that is in financial trouble and owes a bank a lot of money that one of the very first things these banks do is limit in a severe way how much people in management can be paid.

The government is just trying to do what banks have been doing forever in the exact same situation.

NO! They should have been allowed to fail in the first place.

Moot point. Never should have happened in the first place.