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Cleita

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2. Same thing happened to me, except I was able to put the fine on a credit

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Mon Feb 2, 2015, 07:01 PM

Feb 2015

card, otherwise they would have added another $40 if I couldn't pay all at once. I still have to come up with money for traffic school by April so it doesn't get reported to my insurance or that will double or maybe even triple. If I didn't live so far from a bus stop I would get rid of my car. I never thought of it as criminalizing the poor but it sure is.

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Criminalizing the poor [View all] Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

hail... Adam051188 Feb 2015 #1

Collections are usually outsourced to private companies----those with political connections. virgogal Feb 2015 #3

indubitably Adam051188 Feb 2015 #4

Same thing happened to me, except I was able to put the fine on a credit Cleita Feb 2015 #2

K&R A entire new, massively profitable industry is being built on putting humans in cages. woo me with science Feb 2015 #5

Running afoul of the law seveneyes Feb 2015 #6

Way to miss the point. woo me with science Feb 2015 #7

running afoul of the human equation and tilting out of bounds is not predatory? seveneyes Feb 2015 #8

kick.....Corporatism builds the prison state woo me with science Feb 2015 #9