I do support some sort of income based fines, but at the same time if this is applied to everyone what’s stopping the system from screwing the average person out of more money than the current fines price. There needs to be a set income that matches the current fine prices like 100k equals the current price of tickets and anyone under gets a smaller fine and anyone above pays more based on whatever %. The hard part here would be what do you do with people who do not have income? This applies to both poor and rich people, for rich people it’s normally due to only 1 person in the marriage that works and the other person files separately. Do we allow these fines to be applied to both people’s income if married? What about if they are not married? And how much do we charge poor people for these fines with no income? Just the lower rate like a default 50k range fine?
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I do support some sort of income based fines, but at the same time if this is applied to everyone what’s stopping the system from screwing the average person out of more money than the current fines price. There needs to be a set income that matches the current fine prices like 100k equals the current price of tickets and anyone under gets a smaller fine and anyone above pays more based on whatever %. The hard part here would be what do you do with people who do not have income? This applies to both poor and rich people, for rich people it’s normally due to only 1 person in the marriage that works and the other person files separately. Do we allow these fines to be applied to both people’s income if married? What about if they are not married? And how much do we charge poor people for these fines with no income? Just the lower rate like a default 50k range fine?
Are you being ironic or did you just accidentally stumble upon how progressive taxation works?