Eclectic your ideas have merit. But the Beast of Burecracy is a self serving entity that will sabotage any attempt to change it. It definitly is a master of passive aggresive strategies and obeying the letter if not the spirit of a definition to hinder people who would effect the powerbase of many inside.

Have you by chance ever watched Yes, Minister?

Anyhow given the traffic cop mention, it would be nice to see that idea widened out so that essentially all non violent crimes end up a cash cow for the government. The problem I have with a wholly user pays government is where a lot of workers take pay cuts to serve... yourself, police, teachers and other public servants (not the execs) tend to be underpaid compared with the private sector... so it would be a rather nasty society that makes those who serve others pay a larger proportion of their work time in helping to run the society.