My feeling is that you'd clean up some of the act's past sins, so to speak. But I don't see that this helps at all as long as you can keep on working Ponzi frauds and things of that nature. Yes, amnesty is okay. Bring in the low-hanging fruit. But I've never really liked that concept, because it doesn't solve the major problem.
On February 17th, 2011. See this statement in context.