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They tried to do this with lotteries. Like all the revenue from lotteries goes to the schools. What happens is the government funds schools less as lottery reve
by Eddy_Viscosity2 2y ago
They tried to do this with lotteries. Like all the revenue from lotteries goes to the schools. What happens is the government funds schools less as lottery revenue grows so the schools get the same (or even less) but the overall government funds grow. So they still effectively get the revenue. Ultimately all money into the government is controlled by them so there really isn't a way to just move money around that wouldn't incentivize the scheme. Then they start doing shadey things like decreasing yellow light time to cause more violations (and sometimes accidents).
- plorkyeran 2y agoThis is exactly why the parent suggested that the funds have to go to another part of government that isn't being funded by the city. A city cannot cut their funding of federal parks to effectively reassign money from red-light cameras because they aren't funding federal parks in the first place. The federal government is probably going to cut park funding and reassign the money somewhere else, but the people deciding to install the red light cameras are still not directly incentivized to generate revenue with them.