(I like your idea too, of course. This is just another approach.) It's the same idea really. This is, after all, how it used to work. Then we got "tough on cri

(I like your idea too, of course. This is just another approach.) It's the same idea really. This is, after all, how it used to work. Then we got "tough on crime". The argument, from the courts themselves, is that they can no longer afford to operate on their tax-funded budgets. By charging less people with fewer crimes maybe they can get back to operating on an actual tax-payer funded budget!