De: "every time they're found to be violating peoples' rights, whoever does the finding gets $100 million from the guilty Agency, and so does the victim. That'd teach 'em a lesson that might actually hit home."
That's getting closer, and certainly would be better than what we have, but not nearly close enough.
The fundamental problem underlying everything IMO is agents. Agents working for fictitious entities. What should actually happen is: the "corporate veil" of government is immediately pierced and the INDIVIDUALS are personally liable. Take their job, take their retirement, take their stock portfolio, take their house, take everything. They wanted something for nothing? Give them nothing for something.
Then go up the ladder to the managers who managed the department, but obviously didn't manage it well enough, and keep going. At some point that, alone, takes the agency to its knees. If the agency actually did anything useful, net of its harm, it can always be funded or made over. Governments should be allowed to go bankrupt. It costs next to nothing to create a new one - just a new social contract. Yeah, the currency goes to zero..but only if you are dumb enough to let the government print its own money (it doesn't need to, and arguably shouldn't).
Otherwise, especially with government, there is not -- and can never be -- accountability. Because? Because government FICTIONS get infinite money from TAXES. So, the people who are really "punished" for what INDIVIDUALS in a FICTION do always turns out to be the citizens...including the citizen who was harmed!
Another absurdity in government is government voting for its own budget. Even the judiciary is part of the government. The government budget should be voted on directly by the people who have to pay the taxes. Make it a choice between HUMANS who don't "work" for government keeping their money, or GIVING it to those who are so useless they want to "work" for government. You have to do this every time you hire a contractor to fix your house. What would be wrong about those for work for government being in the same boat as those who actually earn a living by providing sought after goods and services?
This BS of you work for a FICTION so you have immunity needs to end. Revoke the 14th Amendment! It was never necessary, IMO. It certainly got perverted enough!
I'm amending my post to underscore one thing: it doesn't have to be like this. Indeed, it wasn't this perverted at the beginning. All the layers of perversion and rot can be stripped away back to the founding documents, anytime we, the citizens, have enough determination.
ESPECIALLY with modern tech, nearly all of the "services" provided for by government can be measured and made free-market with the government ONLY acting to enforce the rules ... AND ITSELF BEING MONITORED/MASSIVELY SURVEILLED BY THE CiTIZENS. You might think it can't work that way, that nobody would ever take the job. But you're wrong: with the right people, with the right understanding of the rules, and the right pay/incentives, plenty of people would still take the job. Only they would mostly try incredibly hard to actually do a GREAT job...and then get back to their real job in the real world ASAP. The idea of a "career" in government "service" is SUCH a complete load of crap. And most of us swallow that crap, like it is ice cream served by Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
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