I've long advocated for a few variations of this: 1. fines must conform to a percentage of the targets earning wealth (e.g. someone who makes 30K a year gets fined $3000, someone who makes 300K gets a 30K fine etc) 2. flat out just as you said, fine must EXCEED by a multiple, the amount they gained (however, determining the gain is in many situations, requiring a lot of forensic accounting to sort out).