"What I find inexplicable is why we always think of it in terms of optimizing revenue for the government! "
What's inexplicable is that we let totalitarians dressed in economist or politician clothing have any chance at implementing their audacities upon us, while on our payroll!
I wish I could recall the U.S. Supreme Court decision that first established that anyone arguing a Congressional or Executive action was unConstitutional had the burden on them.
Just changing THAT alone would put the feds in a world of hurt.