• violentfart@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Why not an exponentially growing fine? A $10 ticket (honest mistake) doubled 16 times makes it $650k

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      2 days ago

      Honestly it should be a % of your yearly income. I remember a dude in Europe got a million dollar fine or some shit

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        1 day ago

        Great, first offense is 1%, doubles each time time. For the 16th ticket offemce it would be 65,536%.

        Clearly that’s impossible for one person to pay off, so every ticket after 5 gets crowd funded by all the people involved in not revoking the license after 5 offences.

        To be generous, every 5 years with no new ticket, one offence is removed from the percentage count.

        Drunk/impaired driving starts at 5% and quadruples each time, and never goes away. If you get a ticket for drinking and driving at 20, and then again 72, that’s 20%.