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It has a constant negative effect so you need a penalty that has a constant discouraging effect. A flat fee doesn't discourage those with more money to pay it.
by majormajor 7y ago
It has a constant negative effect so you need a penalty that has a constant discouraging effect.
A flat fee doesn't discourage those with more money to pay it. It simply says "speeding is OK if you have enough money."
- ikeboy 7y agoA constant fine has a constant discouraging effect.
- Daishiman 7y agoNo it doesn't. A fine's discouraging effect is proportional to the person's ability to pay for it.
- ikeboy 7y agoI ran through the model in other comments, so I won't repeat it here, but in general the disincentive is the same, but people's desire to do something that costs a certain amount goes up with their wealth (called an income effect in economics).
- cmdshiftf4 7y ago> A constant fine has a constant discouraging effect. In this scenario it is constant percentage though, as far as I understand it, and therefore should be constantly discouraging.
- ikeboy 7y agoHow so? I explained the model at length elsewhere in this thread.