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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 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.




If 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...


Speeding 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.


Speeding tickets are a tax on affluenza, which I heartily approve of.


No 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.


I 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.




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