Should the rich pay more for traffic tickets based on a sliding scale? [View all]

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I thought the following article was worthy of discussion. I probably won't participate, but feel the article is spot on regarding the relative pain the rich don't feel when paying a $300 speeding fine versus the rest of us who may need to not eat for a few weeks to pay such a fine.

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Why the SuperRich Should Be Paying $50,000 Traffic Tickets
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All of us would like to live in a world where people always do the right thing — without anybody looking over their shoulder. But that world doesn’t exist and never will. So every society on our planet has penalties. You break the rules, you pay a price.

But penalties only work if the wrongdoer feels that price. A ridiculously tiny penalty amounts to no penalty at all.
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Most of us obey our traffic laws. We know these laws help keep our roads — and communities — safe. We also know that if we slip up and speed, we could end up staring at a $150 ticket. If we slip up again, we could be talking really serious pain.

But not really serious pain for everyone. In today’s deeply unequal United States, some people — extremely rich people — have no reason to worry about traffic citations. If you’re pulling down $1 million a month, a couple hundred dollars for a traffic ticket won’t even register.

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