Thinking back to the late 1980s when I was hauling rocks from Bridgeport Texas to the Metroplex (4 loads a day LOL). I moved to Texas for 3 years.

I remember how all the banks went bankrupt and the savings and loans crashed when the crooked dealings with land value inflation came to light...

The city of Arlington was gonna come up a million dollars short of their budget due to the high cost of Law Enforcement.. But the mayor solved the problem in one stroke of a pen..

He simply raised to court costs on OFFENDERS by 2000 percent.

One upshot of that was a 5$ parking ticket cost 5$ and 95$ court cost.

It finally became cheaper to hire a 45$ attorney and fight the ticket LOL. BUT the budget was met with a surplus and more police were hired..

"Where there is a will there is a way". kinda goes with "cheaters never prosper" too. Again I am struck with how much less the government seems to be able to figure out the correct answer as compared to a 5th grader.

Criminals have been sucking money out of our country's coffers by hiring illegal employees and paying them sub standard wages and sometimes under the table... A nice $50,000 fine per illegal would help balance out the budget for the costs these criminals have transfered from their corporate bottom line to our tax funded budgets in the name of profit!

It could certainly pay for enforcement at state and local levels if that is where enforcement has to be done!

As they do in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and in Arizona, if you run out of jail cells use tents until you can build new ones.. the problem once enforcement is begun and known to be happening will be temporary.