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Should fines be based on someone's income?!!?!?

Should fines be based on someone's income?!!?!?

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It has been suggested in the Heroic thread that the amount of fines paid by law breakers (speeding, etc) be based on their incomes.....'that, we might pay $100.00, but that Bezos pay more like a million.
What does everyone think about that?

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@averagejoe1 said
It has been suggested in the Heroic thread that the amount of fines paid by law breakers (speeding, etc) be based on their incomes.....'that, we might pay $100.00, but that Bezos pay more like a million.
What does everyone think about that?
a billion
with a b
Bezos should pay a billion if he goes over the speed limit


@zahlanzi said
a billion
with a b
Bezos should pay a billion if he goes over the speed limit
Your position shows no logic and just reflects the fact that you are a vindictive bitter person. No one on this entire planet would think an appropriate punishment for a minor violation is a billion dollar fine. It would in essence make it prohibitive for him to be in public because he'd be at risk for a billion dollar fine for littering if he dropped something or if he misread a parking sign. It would also cause vindictive people like yourself to suggest that the government should track rich people for revenue purposes.


@quackquack said
Your position shows no logic and just reflects the fact that you are a vindictive bitter person. No one on this entire planet would think an appropriate punishment for a minor violation is a billion dollar fine. It would in essence make it prohibitive for him to be in public because he'd be at risk for a billion dollar fine for littering if he dropped something or if he ...[text shortened]... e people like yourself to suggest that the government should track rich people for revenue purposes.
"No one on this entire planet would think an appropriate punishment for a minor violation is a billion dollar fine."
No one on this entire planet would think Bezos would give a fuk if he is fined 100 dollars for driving 120km/h through a residential area.

"It would in essence make it prohibitive for him to be in public because he'd be at risk for a billion dollar fine for littering if he dropped something or if he misread a parking sign"
Good.
100$ is equally prohibitive for someone living paycheck to paycheck. That way they abstain from littering or "misreading a parking sign".
Fines are meant to be a deterrent. Fines are meant to be felt. That if you think about doing something that would inconvenience someone, you would think "it's not worth the fine"

" It would also cause vindictive people like yourself to suggest that the government should track rich people for revenue purposes."
Good.
If they don't break the law, they have nothing to worry about. Isn't that one of the arguments you regularly use?

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I believe Switzerland and Finland have just such a system.


@shavixmir said
I believe Switzerland and Finland have just such a system.
marxists, all of them


@zahlanzi said
"No one on this entire planet would think an appropriate punishment for a minor violation is a billion dollar fine."
No one on this entire planet would think Bezos would give a fuk if he is fined 100 dollars for driving 120km/h through a residential area.

"It would in essence make it prohibitive for him to be in public because he'd be at risk for a billion dollar fine f ...[text shortened]... break the law, they have nothing to worry about. Isn't that one of the arguments you regularly use?
I distinctly remember a time when I was in graduate school, parked in a metered spot, set a timer and went to class. I returned (running) to my vehicle to find an officer standing over my meter and waiting for seconds to tick down. I exclaimed "whew, I got here just in time" and with 10 seconds still on the clock she hit print on her little device and handed me the ticket.

The $100 was devastating. I was living in squalor at the time, and it took everything I had not to get angry with the lady. I could not understand why she issued a ticket for someone who was standing at their vehicle but we live in a society with exorbitant rules. I had no time or means or clear-cut case for fighting the fine.

I also could not help but think that if I had means then I would not have cared at all. If I had the power of Jeff Bezos and the fine had teeth, then the parking meters would have been ripped out the next day.


@averagejoe1 said
It has been suggested in the Heroic thread that the amount of fines paid by law breakers (speeding, etc) be based on their incomes.....'that, we might pay $100.00, but that Bezos pay more like a million.
What does everyone think about that?
I agree. I’ve always thought it’s ridiculous that the numeric value of a punishment fine is the same for a billionaire as it is for a pauper.
It should b be levied as a % of the transgressors anual income. If it’s meant to be a punishment then of course the impact on the punished should be equal.


@quackquack said
Your position shows no logic and just reflects the fact that you are a vindictive bitter person. No one on this entire planet would think an appropriate punishment for a minor violation is a billion dollar fine. It would in essence make it prohibitive for him to be in public because he'd be at risk for a billion dollar fine for littering if he dropped something or if he ...[text shortened]... e people like yourself to suggest that the government should track rich people for revenue purposes.
I think your missing the point. A million dollar fine for bezos is not as prohibitive as a thousand dollar fine for someone on minimum wage. It’s a punishment it has to punish.


@zahlanzi said
marxists, all of them
I don't know about Switzerland et al, but this concept is indeed Marxist, as his number-one adage was " From each according to his ability........".
'Nuff said. Congratulations, Zahlanzi. Move to the head of (your) class.

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@averagejoe1 said
It has been suggested in the Heroic thread that the amount of fines paid by law breakers (speeding, etc) be based on their incomes.....'that, we might pay $100.00, but that Bezos pay more like a million.
What does everyone think about that?
There are many countries in Europe with this system, and it seems to be working well.

Why do you feel the need to make your punctuation look like computer code? (?!!?!?)
Are your computer keys malfunctioning?


@mchill said
There are many countries in Europe with this system, and it seems to be working well.

Why do you feel the need to make your punctuation look like computer code? (?!!?!?)
Are your computer keys malfunctioning?
No, they are fine. And I apologize for the 'optics' of the SHouse posts, but it is to expand my sentence from a question to an unbelievable query.

So to your post, are you saying that those countries would charge, say, a percentage of a person's income as the fine? At one percent, An income of $40K would be a fine of $400. For a man making $4M, it would be $40,000. Obviously you don't mean that, so are you saying another sliding scale. What would be your example, as is mine here.?


@averagejoe1 said
It has been suggested in the Heroic thread that the amount of fines paid by law breakers (speeding, etc) be based on their incomes.....'that, we might pay $100.00, but that Bezos pay more like a million.
What does everyone think about that?
do away with monetary fines, require community service


@mchill said
There are many countries in Europe with this system, and it seems to be working well.

Why do you feel the need to make your punctuation look like computer code? (?!!?!?)
Are your computer keys malfunctioning?
He’s a very arrogant American who is under the illusion that this is a US website and therefore you mustn’t mention other countries in debates even when the thing being debated can be considered a universal quandary. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@averagejoe1 said
No, they are fine. And I apologize for the 'optics' of the SHouse posts, but it is to expand my sentence from a question to an unbelievable query.

So to your post, are you saying that those countries would charge, say, a percentage of a person's income as the fine? At one percent, An income of $40K would be a fine of $400. For a man making $4M, it would be $40,000. ...[text shortened]... t mean that, so are you saying another sliding scale. What would be your example, as is mine here.?
An income of $40K would be a fine of $400. For a man making $4M, it would be $40,000. Obviously you don't mean that,


Yes, I do mean that. A fine for illegal behavior needs to be a real deterrent against future illegal behavior. Fining a millionaire with a 4 million dollar income $400.00 for an illegal act has about as much impact as the average citizen losing 25 cents in a malfunctioning gumball machine. There is little or no deterrent in that at all.