Quote:You're missing the point, and I can't tell if it's on purpose or not.  


Why is it okay to charge someone who can pay for the traffic ticket $200.00

But then charge someone who can't pay it $4000?


I'm sure you're a big fan of these loan companies too.  The ones that have illegally high interest rates (allowed in part because regulating them is so difficult because they always find loopholes)  The ones where you'd be better off robbing a bank, than dealing with them.  To be honest, I'm surprised someone hasn't shot up one of those places yet.  

 

It'd be more similar to if you charged say $40.00 for an oil change.  


Person A comes in, pays $40, and you change his oil.

Person B comes in, says "I can't pay that, guess I'll have to go without an oil change" and then you say "Well, sorry.  We changed your oil already." and put them on a payment plan where they end up paying $200 for that oil change.  And if they don't pay, then you have them put in jail.  Which is technically against the law, but the law does it anyway.  

 

 

Quote:The problem is: WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION.

 

You can't just say "Well, I can't pay it.  So go ahead, suspend my license"


And they often end up suspending your license anyway, because again:


If you owe the company $100.00 and you owe the court $40.00, and pay the company $40.00 to pay the court, you still owe the court $40.00

 

If this doesn't seem unethical to you, then it shouldn't be unethical to charge people based on how much money they make in the other direction.

 

Weather or not people can afford to pay the initial citation isn't the point, when you get a citation you have to either pay the fine or pay the fine + additional fee's and penalties and if it goes to long surrender your license. That's how the citation works regardless of a private or public company being involved.

 

 

Quote:I cannot tell if you are being intentional obtuse or not. It is 100% a slippery slope fallacy. 

 

Maintaining or purchasing a personal mode of transportation as nothing to do with breaking laws put forth by society and then seeing a private company turn a profit off the fines you cannot pay. 

 

I'm not at all trying to be obtuse. I'm trying to point out one making a profit isn't different from the other making a profit, profit is neither evil nor good.

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