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It can be similar to fines in Scandinavia (AFAIK). They're linked to your total income e.g. 0.001% of it for running a red light.

• carlmr 5y ago
  >0.001% of it for running a red light. That would be $1 on a $100k salary.
  • Semaphor 5y ago
    While it’s not for fees and only for court convictions, Germany has the concept of "Tagessatz" (Day-fine [0]) which means the monetary punishment is given in a number of those, one day-fine is supposed to be the money you would normally make in one day. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
• jp555 5y ago
  Does this not just drive people to organize their finances to have less income and more capital gains? Sweden has a Gini coefficient of 0.867. Only Russia and The Netherlands are higher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...
  • Semaphor 5y ago
    Theoretically it’s supposed to include capital gains, but according to German Wikipedia we use the net salary.
    • jp555 5y ago
      Ah so it's worse for poor people than rich people. Unintended consequences I guess.
      • Semaphor 5y ago
        It’s still better than flat amounts.
• mrighele 5y ago
  Were you thinking about Switzerland maybe [1] ? [1] https://www.wired.com/2010/01/record-speeding-fine-dents-swiss-bank-account/ https://www.wired.com/2010/01/record-speeding-fine-dents-swi...