Perhaps the problem is that we us the same money for both necessities and luxuries. It allows assholes to decide to see everything as a luxury that someone the

Perhaps the problem is that we us the same money for both necessities and luxuries. It allows assholes to decide to see everything as a luxury that someone they don't like doesn't deserve. There is nothing about a traffic infraction that requires money as the penalty, instead of say, an annoying class or community service, or limiting their use of a vehicle to work or school, which is a thing that is done sometimes. Money is just easy for the administrator at the (no pun) expense of the subjects. That's a shit reason to do something that way. But the majority of the rule-makers and system-designers are people that this setup doesn't harm. What a strange coincidense! That right there blows all these crybaby excuses how it would just be so hard to even try to think of anything else right out of the water.