While it may be easy to criticize the French Gov for their tactics here, I do think the intention is noble. We all know that some salaries are HUGE. Personally, I think it's admirable that they are trying to limit that, and not allow anyone to earn an absolutely insane amount of money for being CEO.
Yes, free market, we should all be able to make limitless amounts of fiat, blah blah blah. It's not sustainable. Will be interesting to see how this play out.
I agree they have good intentions.
Hitler had good intentions too (wikipedia Godwin's law)
nobody cares about the intentions, it's the result that matters. That's where a lot of people who don't understand economy get it wrong - they shout these "tax the rich" slogans without knowing how this in the long run this affects them. They have good intentions, but with their stupidity they ruin everything.