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But if your "sting" is, let's say, a percent of your 100,000 salary, yeah that's going to not be fun but to get your car back, you'll do it and learn your lesso
by imjared 12y ago
But if your "sting" is, let's say, a percent of your 100,000 salary, yeah that's going to not be fun but to get your car back, you'll do it and learn your lesson.
If it's a percent of your $30g salary and you're living paycheck to paycheck while trying to feed 3 kids, the effect is going to be substantially worse. I'm not saying we can just waive penalty fees situationally but the inequality is definitely going to be there regardless.
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- davekeck 12y agoOf course -- the fines don't have to relate linearly to one's income, in the same way that taxes aren't linearly related to one's income. But a system that relates fines to some function of income could be a lot more just than the current system.
- tantalor 12y agoThese types of things are usually progressive scales.
- spiritplumber 12y agoThat's actually what I was told after running a stop light - the fine was relatively small, but the point was that in order to pay it you lost a morning going to traffic court even if you made a million dollars a year. Surprisingly nice cop overall! (This was in Berkeley).
- jonknee 12y agoWhere do you live that you have to go to court to pay a traffic ticket?
- spiritplumber 12y agoAgain, this was in Berkeley (2009 or 2010). The cop said I'd have to go to court and pay the fine there, and told me why. I actually thought it wasn't a bad idea.
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