The people of Finland have a good idea: Progressive rates for speeding and parking ticket rates! The price of the tickets is a percentage of your income taxes.

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Think of the possibilities with this one. You'd have cops actually targeting the rich for revenue. Maybe the repubs lose some of their fascist tendencies if they were a targetted group. I'd love it if all the uberrich got the enhanced patdowns at the TSA too. Just to be fair. I'd love to see a taze video on yourtube which showed a batshit wealthy person for once. They never seem to run into that problem.

I now pronounce this the new American Dream. We used to want to be rich, now we just dream of the rich being treated the same as us.

We wouldnt be firing policeman if we handed out a few "million dollar fine" speeding tickets. Oh, and we'd have to make it based off of net revenues, to get the tax evaders.

I know that usually the rich get off when dealing with the criminal justice system, but what if letting them off carried a giant financial disinsentive? I bet less of them get off then.

What about Equal Treatment under the law, some will cry. Well, we need people to care about the laws. A banker who makes a million dollars an hour doesn't care about a 300 dollar ticket. He doesn't care about a thousand dollar ticket. He can park in a no parking zone, because he doesn't care. The laws don't apply to him because the fine is irrelevant to him. A person like that should be made to be equally insentivized and proportionally punished as a poor person to adhere to the laws. Its very much a fair deal, because you can be fair in the outcomes, but not fair in the application. Just like we dont subject the criminally insane to the same rules as we subject the sane, we cant have the rich paying the same fines as the poor. Thats a unbalanced application of justice, and it needs to be fixed.

I love this idea. We need someone in congress to pick this up. This could even be extended to white collar crime sentencing rates. White collar criminals get off too easily, and poor people get penalized too harshly.

If you have no job because there aren't any jobs because economy tanked when some rich people defauded the country-- when you have no job and no money, How can you pay a 300 dollar speeding ticket?

