Should the rich pay more for traffic tickets based on a sliding scale?

[jberryhill]

67. Upset?

No, I don't believe I am "exempt" from anything. Yes, I paid the ticket by mailing in the payment in the included envelope.

I understand that you have never had a traffic ticket of any kind, that you never leave your local area, and that you believe that someone who has had something like four or five tickets for parking and minor infractions in various jurisdictions over the course of some 38 years of driving, is a one man national crime wave. Oh yes, an international terrorist if you count the warning I got for having an expired tollway pass on a rental car in Austria.

The notion of giving Sheriff Billy Bob and his cousin Judge Joe Bob or, say, Joe Arpaio, access to financial information of everyone they pull over for a broken turn signal, is facially stupid and ripe for abuse.

But, sure, there are people who trust the police and small town courts with expanded power and more reasons to snoop into people's lives, and I'm sure there's s badge somewhere that needs you to polish it.