[griswold3]

Use the money from the Police Budget to pay people not to commit crimes?
“Once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane”

[FatherofFive]

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

I doubt AOC has ever read Kipling