Also, an idea: rather than handing fines and fees to the government -- which incentivizes all kinds of bad behavior, from civil forfeiture to crazy permitting laws -- you stick it in a general fund, and hand it back -- evenly distributed -- to the taxpayer as a dividend at the end of the year.

Do that for every bit of revenue that government makes outside of collecting taxes.

I'm curious where this falls down (outside of implementation difficulties).