There’s always gonna be these people knowingly breaking the law if they can easily afford the fines. Do you think she would keep driving without her seat belt and smoking wherever she pleases if she was fined say 10% of her yearly income every time she was caught?
Fining people for not wearing a seat belt I dont support. Victimless crime.
I agree that fines are not an effective deterrent for crime. Very rich people don’t have much income though (elon musk, for example, i think reports $0 income a year, most of their money comes from capital gains or debt against their assets) and poor people have so little income it will probably encourage lawbreaking, which is probably also not desired, so I don’t really support income based fines. It doesn’t seem to accomplish the objective effectively. Perhaps loss of privileges would be more effective, such as losing your license to drive.
Any unbelted person in a collision becomes an uncontrollable projectile. Which means anyone around the vehicle, and more importantly the child IN her vehicle are at risk of being killed by her flying corpse.
Also, she already had her license taken away, and it apparently didn’t stop her driving.
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So, so, so wrong.
People get flung through windscreens. People in rear seats get flung into the people in the front, killing both of them.
Have you ever seen the aftermath of a rear seat passenger not wearing a seatbelt, then being flung into the back of the front seat, after an 80mph crash into a sycamore tree?
I have. Neither survived. One of them wasn’t even recognisable. A large, 50-100kg projectile travelling at speeds in excess of 30 metres per second isn’t something you want in the same car as you.
Plus, emergency services have to deal with this shit. Family, friends, others on the road have to deal with the consequences. Don’t be such a fucking moron.
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Can someone explain to me why capital gains taxes are lower than income taxes?
Why is “playing the market with your surplus money” charged less than “working your ass off, day in and day out”?
We have no shortage of capital in this country. The financial sector is twice the size of our manufacturing sector. That is ludicrous.