[SamReidHughes]

You're proposing that Joe the candy store owner be given money by the government for filing a patent on kite-powered lawn mowers.

You claim that since Joe is evidently providing something the market values, we should cut his taxes.

But that's what everybody with income does. So why not cut everybody's taxes? We could do that without a sideshow of filing useless patents.

This idea

1. Does not tie rewards in any way to actual innovation.

2. Explicitly suggests that people keep things as trade secrets for a while, which negates the actual purpose of the patent system!

[BigZaphod]

If you know the perfect solution, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it. All you're doing it tearing me down. You're not offering any suggestions to fix these apparently obvious glaring problems in my idea or the current system.