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Moreover, do we as a society want to spend money on discovery procedures to accurately identify speeders' net worth? What do you do if a corporate executive te
by perpetualpatzer 9y ago
Moreover, do we as a society want to spend money on discovery procedures to accurately identify speeders' net worth? What do you do if a corporate executive tells the officer he has no assets or income? Personally, if we think speeding is a problem worth spending on, I'd rather hire two more traffic officers than one lawyer and one accountant to adjudicate fine amounts.
This may be one of those good ideas that falls apart on implementation.
- mrguyorama 9y agoAs far as I understand, Germany implements this system, and it seems to work pretty well
- perpetualpatzer 9y agoDo you know how they validate income? I suppose you could take historical tax filings, which it looks like is what Finland does. Even with that, though, you create the potential to significantly over-burden people with irregular income streams. It looks like the UK tried day fines in the early 90s and dropped it (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4173913.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4173913.stm).