Last time a president tried to curb fat-cat salaries was in 1993, when Bill Clinton signed a law restricting the tax deductibility of executive pay to $1m.

• 上次有总统试图削减大亨们的薪水，还要追溯到1993年，比尔.；克林顿签署法案，规定高管年薪一百万美元内才可享受减税。