The pearl clutchers love to screech about fires and safety, ignoring the fact fire suppression tech has advanced significantly in the time point access blocks were banned.
Or picked apart by private equity vultures at the expense of pension funds.
What you are proposing would fundamentally break price discovery on the open market as everyone's tax burden would need to be continually calculated. That just isn't feasible.
Elon would have triggered a taxable event using his wealth to buy Twitter.
Putting rank and file employees out of work isn't the win you think it is.
The problem with revenue based fines is payroll makes up a large portion of a companies expenses.
This would just lead to job losses as the company makes cuts to pay the fine.
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Who said anything about Prison?
I want them placed into a purpose built addictions facility where they can get help, while protecting public safety.
We've been suppressing fires for decades, allowing underbrush to build up creating even worse conditions for fires.
Either we let it burn, or make a conscious effort to clean up the underbrush ($$$). There is nothing we can do to reverse climate change fast enough to stop this.
Tldr, we replaced the rock solid analog tech with dirt cheap digital crap that is compressed and delayed.
What's next, discontinuing the CHU shortwave broadcast?