If it was 1% of your income then no matter how much you make it’s 1%

Then it’s equal

But that's not equal, at all.

What you lose equal to what you have is

If someone makes jack shit, do they still gotta pay 1% of nothing for speeding?

Yes

thats how

It still will fucking suck

fines work

Imagine making 12k a year and losing 1% of that

You need ever little thing you have

I assume the percentage is more than 1%

It's not about how much the % is, but the basis of %-based fees.

Then the punishment is injust

Well no, what I mean is that it's more fair if everyone pays the $300. That's truly equal.

The mindset of the person paying the $300 is irrelevant.

That’s like having two children
One is 16 without a license and the other 17 with a license. If they go out and rob a store would you give them the equal punishment of taking their right to the car away even though it will obviously affect the 17 year old a lot fucking more?

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It’s an “equal punishment”

That's one hell of a simile.

The idea of a punishment is you lose something. How is it equal if one person is undeniably losing more in proportion to what they have to another?

12k a year? Jesus when I was working part time at walmart I was making more than that.

12K a year is like bottom of the barrel, it was just an example.

Ah

What kind of ubershite job would pay so little anyway?

Like I think in Canada if you live off ODSP, disability, you make around that much.

if taxes can have different brackets based on income, so can fines

No not brackets

That’s bad

Just a percentage

So it’s just

I think that'd only really work if the justice system to fight tickets and the like were fair.

You can fight it

I’ve had friends who fight and win all the time

And they were guilty af

Yeah, but I have no idea on what their system is like, how often it happens, just hearsay, so I can't really change my opinion on it to be for it.

I think the speed radar gun records a time or something

Democrats be like

I think for such a more punishing system, it would need to be as accurate as possible. Speed guns haven't really improved on technology all that much from what I know, especially the handheld ones.

@LmaoMoni is not white

But we all agree we need a simple 15% flat tax right?