Quote:I'm not going to pretend I know how they are or are not generating the fee's that's not the issue. You guys have said repeatedly you have a problem with the private company managing the delinquent non-payments for profit, I maintained why not? Any bill, any fee, any citation, has a due date, when you go past that due date there are penalties and fee's, I'm failing to see the problem.

 

Now TED made the point he believes it's unconstitutional to have courts put people in jail for not paying these fee's, which is another discussion we've been having. But the existence of the fee's isn't abnormal, nor the fee's being for profit, everything is for profit.

 

You claim the cost is being artificially inflated, I don't know that, I'm just saying the use of third parties itself isn't a problem. Now if there's corruption involved then the parties guilty should be punished.

 

 

The circumstances of the party should play no role in the punishment dictated by the courts. I disagree 100% with TED that we should have anything even remotely close to a graduated penalty system.

Whoa, so the circumstances of the part should play no role in the punishment dictated by the courts..... Until a private, for profit firm gets involved and now the punishment dictated by he courts is artificially inflated. Which part of artificially inflated do you not understand. You keep ignoring it. It's a penalty dictated by the courts that is then artificially inflated well above what the courts mandated.

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