Politicians: Make money, don't take money!

I have a dream that one day a "politician" (and this will not be the run-of.the-mill-in-somebody's-pocket-politician) will get on the barricades and say:

We the government should start to MAKE money instead of TAKE money.

Imagine if the government (who employs about half the people directly or indirectly in this country) would look at the other side of the equation: Revenue (NO, that's not TAX).

How can the various pieces of the government MAKE money? How can they sell something that we will buy?

Example: Prisons

1. Have people in prison MAKE something that we would buy. Maybe take all the smart white collar crooks and start a software company (PrisonSoft). They could develop software for all kinds of applications and the talent pool is enormous! The not so smart guys can also make something sellable and put it up for sale on eBay or other places.

2. Any prison located next to a highway - put advertising on the walls

3.Government cars could have advertising on them

4. Government run casinos

etc etc etc - some ideas might be WAY out there but the bottom line should be: MAKE money don't TAKE money.

Now, combine this with cutting the fat of the pencil-pushers (you know who I'm talking about, the crowd that spent a few million dollars in their cubicles and came up with the brilliant idea to call Car Pool lanes HOV - what's the deal with that???). Abolish the word TAX and IRS (there's a few hundred thousand people that can do something else).

We the People should be able to build our businesses and the country without the interference of some dude in a cubicle making it difficult for us. Of course there are laws to stop the crooks but don't make the environment such that innovation is killed before it gets started. 98% of this country's business are small business and that's how any company starts out - MOTIVATE us to keep innovating and let us reap the fruits of our labor without your stinking hand grabbing stronghold of our wallet!