Income-based speeding tickets, should we?

So the leeches get a pass again?

What a despicable concept.

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but it does make a certain amount of sense from a pragmatic/utilitarian perspective.

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It's pragmatic to run every freaking speeding ticket through the IRS? It's either that or you have some Federal Government Salary card you have to carry on you when driving, just like a license. Because that should be Floyd the deputy's business when he stops you for going 39 in a 35.

IF you see an expensive car speeding just follow them bc u know they will get pulled over for the bigger ticket lol

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Criminal penalties should punish and/or deter crime. A $100 ticket serves neither purpose vis-a-vis a billionaire. Not sure I like the concept, but it does make a certain amount of sense from a pragmatic/utilitarian perspective.

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How about from an “equal application of the law” perspective? Commie.

If they focused as much effort on real crimes as they do speeding tickets I may be willing to accept this.

But the current efficiency of law enforcement is so arse backwards that I could see a push for this but with some kickback added in where the officer writing tickets gets direct compensation per ticket. That way we will really make our highways safe!

Are we going to apply this to other crimes or just tickets? Does a billionaire that gets caught stealing $1000 get 10 years in jail vs the homeless drug addict getting 10 days? Does the wall street banker get 10 years for a gram of coke vs a minimum wage employee getting 6 months? If you want to encourage people to remain poor government leeches, this is a great way to do it.

Should we charge people that make more money higher insurance premiums for the same vehicle too? How else can we punish prosperity in this country? Let's charge rich people more for the same food. If you make over $60k, then you have to pay 50% more for gas.

This is a dumb idea.

If you want to be able to speed and not have it affect your budget, then make more money.

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but it does make a certain amount of sense from a pragmatic/utilitarian perspective.

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Only if you believe people should be treated differently under the law just because of how much money they have. It's this kind of thinking that will allow some people to say that whites should have harsher penalties because of their inherent privilege.

Oh yeah, it's still going. They had to revise the guidelines not too far back though because there were some troopers blatantly cleaning house, comically overdoing it with the overtime income. Had to cap the number of LACE tickets that any one participant could write for a given period.

Their most productive strategy is concentrating efforts in the morning hours when working folks who for obvious reasons are more likely to pay are on their way to work.