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If the main point of the fine is punitive; that is, designed to hurt the offender financially to disincent the person from repeating the offense, then scaling the fine to the person's wealth makes perfect sense.
The potential, eventual threat of license revocation has nothing to do with the irrelevance of small fines to the wealthy. The fine STILL means nothing to them. If it's to be a punitive measure, it should hurt the wealthy just as much.
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