Should rich people pay more for speeding tickets?

Rich people do pay more for speeding tickets. I've gotten 135 in a 65 that was reduced to 85 so I wasn't charged with felony endangerment because I have fast fucking cars, but in return for the 85 they wrote me 4 other attitude adjustment complaints like failure to keep right, failure to yield to emergency vehicle, too fast for conditions, and failure to use care when accelerating so whole tab was like $900. Broke people have whipped Corollas that can barely hit 65 going downhill and get a $35 fine for littering when their bumper falls off in the middle of the highway and I run over it and it fucks up my radiator.
 


supplyshock said:
Fuck you bitch. What part of a speeding ticket being a completely arbitrary number that is supposed to deter crime do you not understand? Why is this number the same for all people? I.E. a $400 speeding ticket DOES NOT DETER douchebag millionaires from flooring it down the street while it completely rapes someone who's already not making much.

Yeah, rich people should pay more. I said it. It doesn't make sense the way we have it.
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bahahaha, you think speeding tickets are suppose to deter crime? Speeding fines are there to raise revenue, not keep you safe or deter crime.
 
I actually parked without paying the computerized, credit card only meter today ($5+ meters along the beach) and I wasn't going to feed a meter on an empty street at 6am since it was a waste of time... and I actually thought about that...

$120 parking ticket in a neighborhood where the houses start at 3mil seems a little silly.

Am I going to complain? Nope.
 
Is your goal to change behavior? If so, you're right: the fine should be proportional to income.
 
If I had to pay for everything as a percentage of my income, what the fuck would the point of having more money than you be?

EDIT: guerilla beat me
 
WTF?

Ban this idiot for even bringing this bullshit up.

All you want to do is take from those who've EARNED it and give to those who DON'T deserve it.

Your ideas encourage people NOT to be successful!

supplyshock said:
It doesn't seem fair that someone who makes $400 a week pays the same for a speeding ticket as someone who makes $4,000 a week.
If the speeding ticket is $200, then that's 50% of the former person's weekly salary. That's only 5% of the latter person's salary. Obviously, this is a huge impediment to the poorer person, who may have to save up just to pay the ticket off, while the person with more money probably scoffs at the price and can pay for it immediately.

If taxes are paid on a percent of income basis, then why shouldn't tickets be done this way? A fixed amount seems pretty silly and inequal.

Agree or disagree? Why?

in b4 I'm a socialist.

And yes I did just get a speeding ticket.
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danke said:
I actually parked without paying the computerized, credit card only meter today ($5+ meters along the beach) and I wasn't going to feed a meter on an empty street at 6am since it was a waste of time... and I actually thought about that...

$120 parking ticket in a neighborhood where the houses start at 3mil seems a little silly.

Am I going to complain? Nope.
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Do you get charged more or less for speeding in a 355.

355 looks better than a 360; not more than 430 though.

Can you make it up over the diff in speeding tickets v the price of a 430 over a 355?

OP, we're not talking about the cc's of your toyota, but overall I'd like to know?
 
dcodex said:
Ban this idiot for even bringing this bullshit up.

All you want to do is take from those who've EARNED it and give to those who DON'T deserve it.

Your ideas encourage people NOT to be successful!
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The funny thing is, he probably did more for the cause of freedom by provoking responses from the folks in this thread.

WF = 1
supplyshock = 0
 
Socialists/Welfare bums are the greediest little bastards. I cant make it, so I'll have the government take it; by force.
 
supplyshock said:
It doesn't seem fair that someone who makes $400 a week pays the same for a speeding ticket as someone who makes $4,000 a week.
If the speeding ticket is $200, then that's 50% of the former person's weekly salary. That's only 5% of the latter person's salary. Obviously, this is a huge impediment to the poorer person, who may have to save up just to pay the ticket off, while the person with more money probably scoffs at the price and can pay for it immediately.

If taxes are paid on a percent of income basis, then why shouldn't tickets be done this way? A fixed amount seems pretty silly and inequal.

Agree or disagree? Why?

in b4 I'm a socialist.

And yes I did just get a speeding ticket.
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I hate people like you. Fuck off.

Work harder. Build a real business. Make more money. Problem solved.
 
From my experience socialists fall into 3 groups.

Idealists actually believe the world would be a better place if society was leveled and incentives were replaced with selflessness.

The bosses are the very clever socialists who wouldn't amount to much without an ideology to hide behind. They know it is a farce, but it is a useful farce because it gets them places they could not get on merit.

Socialists of convenience are usually losers, who think the system is unjust when they are down but love the system when they are up. They do not have any principles or guiding philosophy beyond their own short term welfare.

The OP strikes me as one of these people.
 
When I was broke it bothered me, now my time is money, I speed, I get caught, I laugh and make friends with the cop who knows I earn way more than him. Though I WILL say that here the cops seem to target lower class (perhaps they know that the rich(er) are the ones giving them jobs).

Make more money, laugh at tickets. If things were your way cops would have incentive to target the rich/meet bigger quotas, and we're the ones paying huge taxes to begin with that makes the city run.
 
What makes you think a person with a lot of money will react to losing $200 differently than a person who already is late for their rent half the time anyways?

If your only making $400 a week, what business do you have driving a car? Ride the bus you asshole.
 
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supplyshock said:
It doesn't seem fair that someone who makes $400 a week pays the same for a shirt as someone who makes $4,000 a week.
If the shirt is $200, then that's 50% of the former person's weekly salary. That's only 5% of the latter person's salary. Obviously, this is a huge impediment to the poorer person, who may have to save up just to buy the shirt, while the person with more money probably scoffs at the price and can pay for it immediately.

If taxes are paid on a percent of income basis, then why shouldn't shirts be done this way? A fixed amount seems pretty silly and inequal.

Agree or disagree? Why?

in b4 I'm a socialist.

And yes I did just get a shirt.
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