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Switzerland publicly voted on a strict 12x salary limit for CEOs compared to junior employees. The proposal was rejected after 65% of voters opposed it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-24/swiss-vote...

The article also says that the same law (with public voting) would have had a much larger success rate in Germany where apparently three quarters of the population would vote in favor.

I wonder how such a public vote would turn out in the USA.

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If it were up to the actual voters, I believe it would pass. But there is no way in hell any more than a small handful of American politicians would vote for this.

This has also been tried in the USSR. The economic success of such a measure is evident.

Yeah, there was definitely nothing else different in the USSR that might also make affect economic success. Apart from how they paid their CEOs, they were just like the USA.

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