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It's not "a bit" in this case. The entire point of the change is to reach those who can't be reached by it today. Middle class folk are still dissuaded by multi
by eganist 3y ago
It's not "a bit" in this case. The entire point of the change is to reach those who can't be reached by it today. Middle class folk are still dissuaded by multi hundred dollar HOV fines, for instance, so what's the point of pegging a fee against their 100,000 dollar Porsche?
The goal is to tag the people for whom a few hundred dollars means nothing, and you're not going to get there with a percentage fine unless you're factoring in all their assets registered to the state and incentivizing the state to enforce tax evasion statutes. CHP, for instance, has at most two officers enforcing Montana plate dodging in SoCal.
That's the problem with "simple" statutes; they're easy to dodge and thus hurt the people who can't.
Why are you choosing to die on this hill lol, I'm trying to help your point.
- ethanbond 3y agoI wouldn’t recommend defending the driver of a $100,000 Porsche as an example of looking out for the middle class.
- eganist 3y agoThat's squarely in the middle class in many cities. https://www.yahoo.com/now/much-middle-class-6-us-130110380.html https://www.yahoo.com/now/much-middle-class-6-us-130110380.h... How many SF, NYC, DC folk do you know pulling 150-250 a year driving cars that are 50% of their income? It's frequent; anecdata, I can think of a dozen. And that's my point.
- ethanbond 3y agoPeople earning 150-250k in those areas are not driving $100k cars lol, and if they are then they should go out of their way not to park illegally.