Just thought of another benefit of salary caps on employees of publicly funded companies.... Gaz Lineker wouldn't be on anything like £1.5M a year or whatever he's on now.

... until that is, TV actors, commentators, pundits etc got smart, as they did over here and started working for independent programme makers and then selling the programme to the NOS (Dutch equivalent of BBC) companies at a price the makers deemed the "product" was worth. The state broadcaster was no longer paying "Lineker" a salary but buying a product from an independent producer who then pay "Lineker" et al the exorbitant salary he/they want. Workarounds and bypasses appear to be merely temporary "fixes".