Lets not get too caught up in the specifics of particular policy. I was just trying to point to the fact that there is a genuinely hard problem with inevitably

Lets not get too caught up in the specifics of particular policy. I was just trying to point to the fact that there is a genuinely hard problem with inevitably messy solutions. Your solution is also messy. Maybe it is better. but it is not uncontroversially better & it does not give a solution with no perverse incentives. I also agree that the political system does not produce optimal decisions. I agree with you. But there is a big gap between sub optimal & random.