Comment Re:= $912,000,000,000 (Score 2, Informative) 247
The law of unintended consequences would kick in... because the minute the government goes around taking companies, everyone else sees this...
Then the government discovered what a great money maker this is, and goes after all companies for anything they might be doing wrong...
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What you are suggesting has actually been done, in other countries... it isn't pretty...
Countries like the US with asset forfeiture laws creating a special interest group and cottage industry around the legal fiction that your assets are a person and you have no legal standing if they're 'incarcerated'. My introduction was while I was renewing my sales tax license. I overheard a conversation next to me. The person had been pulled over and arrested on invented drug charges which were thrown out in court because they were baseless (it sounded like friends pooled money for a defense lawyer). In the meantime the State had seized and sold his car, and taken his life savings from his bank accounts. The clerk was explaining to him that 'It's our policy to retain those funds after trial'.
So the state got paid, and the lawyers got paid - and now we know why he was pulled over for 'waste of time' charges...
Apparently just taking everything is only a good idea if you're too small to make large political contributions.