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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
Driving is a privalege NOT a right.
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True but irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
So... the "income based fine" is just another way for the nanny state to take something that doesn't belong to them.
The CORRECT course of action is to fine the person the normal fine that everyone else pays and because he's a repeat offender then you take away his license. That is the ONLY legitimate and justified punishment.
The idea is not to take advantage of someone's wealth to stick them with some arbitrary fine so that the municipality can get a windfall and spend it like a politician!
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A strong argument can be made along those lines when talking about taxes but if you are going to have monetary penalties for breaking laws it makes perfect sense to scale them relative to the individuals wealth. When they don't scale you have to choose between fines that are so small that they aren't a meaningful penalty to those with wealth or fines so large that even minor infractions will be unaffordable by those with less. It's exactly the same reason that the person's wealth is an important part of setting bail amounts.