It's not the most efficient way to do it though. For every dollar you get out of a CEO, they are paying a dollar tax so they would have to pay themselves an additional $2 to cover it. It's much better to give them an incentive to give of their own violition pre-tax than in that format.

Some of the things OWS in the states is doing is just ridiculous. They are encouraging people to mass default on mortgages because if they do it in big enough quantities, the banks wont have the manpower to kick them out for about a year and they will save money while the banks loose. That is just stupid. It's one thing to want to protest against large scale corporate greed, another thing all together to actively work towards bringing down whole economies, and when you look at some of their writing, that is what they want to do. Topple Wall Street.