The cross party policy that everyone is ignoring

[flor-de-jasmim]

4. The use of FINES also deserves a look:

Three days ago the following news came out:

The Federal Election Commission is fining a super PAC that supported former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for accepting over $1.3 million in illegal donations from Chinese nationals.

The Right to Rise super political action committee was fined $390,000 for soliciting the foreign contributions during the 2016 campaign. American Pacific International Capital, a Chinese-owned company, was fined $550,000 for giving the donation.

Unless there was another fine, this means the PAC still came out more than $350,000 ahead in the game.

To me, an admitted non-lawyer, a fine should be more than the amount taken in, which is a specific amount of payment. Anything less than that amount still results in a profit for those breaking the law. Maybe we need to apply a system of damages + compensation. In this case, $1.3 million in damages and something more for the "pain and suffering" we all suffered.

Manafort embezzled something like $66 million. He has been fined (so far) only peanuts on the dollar. Damages should be $66 million, and the amount for pain and suffering due to "shenanigans" (in light of a stronger word) from Trump et al., incalculable to the country, but at a minimum should call for stripping these families of all the money gained illegally. That would be my starting point.