[motohagiography]

This what economists call "moral hazard." Simply, you get more of what you reward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

What are the effects of mortgage interest payments being tax deductable, and given these, what do you think the effect of ransoms being deductable will be?

If this policy weren't just dumb, it would be like these government people actually just want to create more chaos so they can direct it at target groups then only selectively respond to it as a way to paralyze opposition. Not to be political, but any sufficiently idiotic policy is indistinguishable from partisanism, imo.