More immediately, I'd like to see several rulings at once that state that future sustainable profits are more important than immediate ones, and that the suing shareholders can be held liable for court fees and damages for negative press if they sue the company/board an lose. Companies and their executives should be allowed fairly broad strokes to make a company valuable, including value of goodwill and paying attention to/not exploiting loopholes in the law.
Background: I'm Swiss and this is more or less how the relationship between government and people works here. Besides the people's right to take down / create any law collectively, the tax system also works in a way that tax evasions are not regarded as illegal the same way you do. People are obligated to 'list their stuff' every year - if it turns out they 'forgot' something, it is simply paid later - only some minor monetary punishment involved, never jailtime. It only becomes a crime if someone forges documents - which is hardly ever done. The banking secrecy plays a big role in this - it's basically the Swiss government saying 'we will never directly look into your books and trust the informations you give us'. It's the behavior of a subordinate who trusts that he's fairly compensated by his employer.
Interestingly, Swiss tax moral is said to be very high, despite this lax system.
I would love to live in a country where this is actually practiced. Perhaps immigration is in my future - do you have a preferred locale in Switzerland?
In the States we _say_ this is the way things should be, but in _practice_ the people in D.C. are a horde of bandits looting the bank.
Those guys don't like people like me, they don't _trust_ people like me, there is no reason why I should pretend I trust or like them back.
