Sure, individuals should be responsible for real, verifiable loses. We have a vehicle for that -- it's called a tort lawsuit, and there are at least 31 flavors. If the harm they cause doesn't merit going through a lawsuit, then it really doesn't merit any sort of societal action to redress it, now does it. Just to be clear, NO NEW LAWS!!!!!!!!!!!! NO NEW CRIMES!! NO NEW FINES!!
Now, as for the egregious wasting of the government's money, there is already a vehicle for redressability -- paying the cost of the public good. This is already assessed in many states to those who, through their own stupidity, cause the need to be rescued. Same concept would work here.
But, what I really want is for the idiot federal workers (and prosecutors) who blew an off-the-cuff jest out of proportion, to pay ME my TAX MONEY spent on their efforts to jerk off and screw around.
