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100% agree. Its like the fine you get for a speeding ticket. Do they really think $75 is going to stop anyone from speeding? No, and they don't care. Its a
by Zelphyr 12y ago
100% agree. Its like the fine you get for a speeding ticket. Do they really think $75 is going to stop anyone from speeding? No, and they don't care. Its a revenue source for them so they keep it reasonably low and make up the difference in volume.
If they really wanted to stop speeding they'd charge $500 for a first offense. So maybe instead of giving those departments incentive to basically rob people--and, lets face it, that's exactly what it is--we fund them through taxes. That way they can focus on doing their jobs and not on speeding ticket quotas.
- ejain 12y agoIf you really wanted to reduce speeding, you'd just charge a small administrative fee, and suspend driving licenses after a few infractions. The bigger the importance of revenues from tickets, the lower the incentive to enforce speeding too well, because then too few people would speed...
- lukeschlather 12y agoSpeeding tickets are a tax on affluenza, which I heartily approve of.
- shiven 12y agoI wish this was actually true. But is even a 5000 dollar ticket going to matter to someone sitting on 50 million in cash? I strongly doubt it.
- knodi123 12y agoNo they aren't. Plenty of poor people speed, and they get ticketed at the same rate, more or less. A real tax on affluenza would be fines that are scaled to your net worth, with a minimum value. Say, from $75 all the way up to 1% of your worth.
- jsight 12y agoSpeeding tickets average closer to $150 than $75, and I think there are plenty of people who adjust their speeds to avoid them. There are certainly places where they exist purely as a revenue function, but I don't think that it is accurate to imply that this is the case everywhere.