institute regulatory controls on corporate executive compensation

Current practices relating to the compensation of executives of publicly-traded corporations create built-in incentives for these executives to place their own interests before those of the company. They also provide tax shelters that ensure that these executives are not bearing their share of the tax burden compared to average workers. Examples of proposals to regulate the compensation of corporate CEOs can be found on Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_pay_in_the_United_States#Proposals
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These include government regulations such as say-on-pay vote requirements, restrictions on tax "gross-ups", golden parachute compensation and other severance compensation committees and their advisers, and clawbacks (recovery of compensation for unearned performance-based pay).