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Originally posted by irseg
So? Rich people have a much easier time paying for food, utilities, etc., than the rest of us too. Like I said before, that's just part of being rich. And if you get enough tickets, you get your license revoked and/or your insurance dropped no matter how much money you have.
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I dunno about licence revocation, that depends on the place. As for insurance, tickets result in higher premiums, which the wealthy can ususally afford. Granted, this is all hypthetical. I think a wealthy person with no licence is better of than a poor person with no licence any day.
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Punishments are supposed to be proportional to the crime--not how much of an impact it supposedly has on the offender. Unless of course you'd like to let any agoraphobic rapists and murderers out of their nice cozy jail cells.
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Punishments are meant to deter crime. How is a rich person detered by a citation that results in the loss of a less than significant sum of money? How many speeding tickets could bill gates afford to get? How many could your average millionaire afford to get before they were affected to any significant degree? How many could you get?
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Hell, just to play devil's advocate, how about we jack up speeding tickets on poor people? A new BMW is a lot safer going 30 over than a 20 year old pickup truck.
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I fail to see how your devilish advocation has anything to do with proportional fines based on wealth. They aren't fining people based on their choice of vehicle.