Is removing home page the best result to remove bad links?

Hi I have a website and I am a victim of bad links, I agree I did many myself in 2011, yet I do want to be found once again after Penguin.
So I am curious if I were to change my Domain name and just basically repost my site with a new domain, will this basically look like a new site to the search engines thus I don't have to worry about the bad links that I have while I get the other domain cleaned up?
I mean I went from top 5 on page one to page 12. But I have NO manual penalty. Its just…
Is removing home page the best result to remove bad links?

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