In at least one of the scandinavian countries, they actually do that. Your fine is expressed in a point system instead of a fixed amount and forwarded to the tax office, And then the tax office fines you based on your income. Which led to a 6-digit fine for a speeding driver some years ago.
What does she claim her yearly income? Usually someone working hard enough to brush off a $3k fine doesn’t drive themselves around and is smart enough to know the safety of seatbelts. Something tells me her lifestyle isn’t based on her income.
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?
Honestly the only reason I’m against income tax is because we tried that in Vermont and because it also applied to poor people rich people moved and poor people had a harder time becoming middle class
That completely makes sense. Washington state has an interesting capital gains tax. You don’t get taxed at a state level unless you make more than 250,000 in a year. I think it’s a great way to only target the rich while allowing the poor and middle class to make some money untaxed at a state level.
That’s a pretty good idea but just as corporations have been screwing with Rossmans right to repair bills I find it unrealistic to assume the rich will do the same with income tax bills.
I think it depends… on safety issues like seat belts and stuff, yes 10% of yearly income is acceptable. However, if I’m 1 week out from renewing my registration? Screw that, its the government just wanting more money from me owning my car. Its not going to kill someone if my truck has been registered under my name before and i forget to get it reupped that week. I’m not advocating forever mind you, just give some leniency on bureaucratic crap that won’t affect safety of anyone.
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Who is this thing gross thing, yuck
What’s wrong with her mouth? Beekeeper?
In at least one of the scandinavian countries, they actually do that. Your fine is expressed in a point system instead of a fixed amount and forwarded to the tax office, And then the tax office fines you based on your income. Which led to a 6-digit fine for a speeding driver some years ago.
It’s Finland you’re thinking of
(which as an aside is not a part of Scandinavia, but is a part of the Nordics)
Switzerland and Belgium too as far as I can see.
Holy shit… That is one disgusting primate…
You’re not supposed to inject the silicone into the brain.
What does she claim her yearly income? Usually someone working hard enough to brush off a $3k fine doesn’t drive themselves around and is smart enough to know the safety of seatbelts. Something tells me her lifestyle isn’t based on her income.
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?
Income? No, wealth-based fine. These leaches hide their income too well.
Fines that are based on net-worth are even better. That way rich people with lots of assets (and little income) still get fined an appropriate amount.
Yeah, I would just love filling out those forms…
Honestly the only reason I’m against income tax is because we tried that in Vermont and because it also applied to poor people rich people moved and poor people had a harder time becoming middle class
That completely makes sense. Washington state has an interesting capital gains tax. You don’t get taxed at a state level unless you make more than 250,000 in a year. I think it’s a great way to only target the rich while allowing the poor and middle class to make some money untaxed at a state level.
That’s a pretty good idea but just as corporations have been screwing with Rossmans right to repair bills I find it unrealistic to assume the rich will do the same with income tax bills.
I guess you could find some edge case where someone had lots of assets that they could access for contract reasons so they basically housepoor.
Or you know they could stop breaking the rules the rest of us have to follow.
She looks flammable.
I think it depends… on safety issues like seat belts and stuff, yes 10% of yearly income is acceptable. However, if I’m 1 week out from renewing my registration? Screw that, its the government just wanting more money from me owning my car. Its not going to kill someone if my truck has been registered under my name before and i forget to get it reupped that week. I’m not advocating forever mind you, just give some leniency on bureaucratic crap that won’t affect safety of anyone.
Did she face fuck a hornets nest then swallow two old basketballs in the panicked aftermath?
What is wrong with her face? Is that intentional or was this poor woman born that way?
Surgery, lots and lots of surgery.
I see the Andromedans stopped wearing their disguises. Time to spit out the bubblegum.
So anybody wanna talk about the 9 cigarettes she’s smoked on a helicopter ride? Like how the fuck? Is she chain smoking them?