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Carrots and not Sticks
I like Newt's ideas, particularly about giving companies tax breaks for not polluting; in fact we ought to expand it. In addition to giving tax breaks to companies that don't pollute, we can give tax breaks to people who don't murder, sell drugs, or embezzle company funds. For example, for correctly reporting my income to the IRS, I get a 10% discount. And since I haven't committed a robbery this year, I get another 5% off. Instead of jailing people for selling drugs, we can pay them for not selling drugs and save on our prison system. Heck, by the time I'm finished 'not breaking any laws' the government will owe me money. And there will be no taxes!