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Again, I suggest we change the penalties for these crimes to be triple damages, which is already common for other civil penalties. And we base that number on the company's annual base revenue, not the net income or profit.
If the company moves $55 billion a year that's what the penalties are based on, even if they only profit $500 million. It's the only way to actually make breaking the law no longer profitable.
That would be nice, but sadly it'll never happen (not as long as companies making that much profit, and whose owners therefore wield the kind of power that comes with that, and the system that encourages and enables their existence, exist).