Quote:So you are perfectly fine with for profit companies artificially increases the court mandated fees, in the example given, over 5 times the original fee resulting in jail time. All that on top of making profits off of it. I wonder if you would be all for it if the government was doing this. 

 

Your missing the point, those fees are a result of not paying the initial fine. Even if there was no private company involved, there would still be additional fines charged for not paying court mandated fees. For example I get a speeding ticket ( I don't pay the ticket or get an extension by the due date) there's more fees including my license being suspended. Then the state is spending money trying to collect the fees I owe them, as time goes on those fees grow, eventually I can be arrested for willfully refusing to pay.

 

In the case of private companies they take over AFTER I have failed to pay my initial fine. At that point the private company is reliving the state of the collection duties, so no I don't have a problem with them making a profit for providing a service.

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