If you don't make the fines or whatever substantially more than the profit of the illicit or negligent conduct, it isn't a consequence. It's a budget line-item.

If you don't make the fines or whatever substantially more than the profit of the illicit or negligent conduct, it isn't a consequence. It's a budget line-item. Every regulatory agency in America has been stripped to the bones by decades of budget cuts and never ending accusations of "stifling innovation" and we're shocked now that companies get away with both metaphorical and actual murder.