Quote:So you'd rather they cost the tax payers... thousands of dollars to keep someone in jail for 60 days, then an administrative fees that would be used to postpone a payment"


No, it's not as simple as "Can't pay the fine, don't get citations"


I mean otherwise that argument would also go toward "Fines should be based on how much you make."


You make $200,000/year, and don't want to pay a high fine?  Do the speed limit!  It's that simple.


The fact is the system we have gives police incentives to go after poor people (and particularly black people)

 

You avoided my questions, why is it the rest of the tax payers responsibility to cover the cost of either extending the due date on their citation/forgiving the citation or financing the citation? I'm not advocating jail time, I'm saying that's the alternative to not having a third party manage the people that don't pay the fines.

 

I don't think a company is evil for being the third party, of course it's for profit, everything is for profit. Even when government does it, it's for profit, but you're arguing that charging late fee's is the equivalent to income scaled penalties and it's not. What you're advocating is a graduated penalty to spread out the burden of citations equally.

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