[hugh3]

This strikes me as a non-sequitur. There's a lot of bad stuff you can do without actually committing a crime. Especially if you have enough money to influence the law.

And it's the Government's job to make sure that "bad stuff" (ie stuff that actively and deliberately hurts people, not just standard non-optimal stuff) is illegal.

If a legal moneymaking niche exists, somebody will fill it. Even if it's immoral, because... hey, people are extremely good at convincing themselves that anything is moral if it happens to be in their own interests. The government's job is to prevent any harmful yet legal niches from arising, and the job of the people is to make sure that pressure is put on the government to eradicate said niches... even when they'd much rather take campaign contributions from the people in 'em.

This comment is free of examples, because I don't feel like discussing any specific cases.