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The $2m speeding fine
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He may have broken the law, but if you're going to do it, do it in a car like that.
what a way to get ticket though
As this man has been caught driving at 180mph, I say that this cunt should be thrown into prison for a few years. That might kill his thirst for speed. And yes, I'd say that anyone who does this speed on public roads should be locked up.
In future, do what everyone else would have to do in order to get up to speeds like that. Visit a fucking racing track.
UPDATE: Oh, and make the fucker pay for rent and for his food whilst he's doing porridge too.
Taking hundreds of thousands of pounds off someone with money is just as bad as putting them in prison. If you'd ever seized a range rover from someone for an unpaid tax disc/not being bothered to pay a couple of hundred quid in insurance you'd know how much the rich detest parting with money.
So you're happy with a situation where a person on benefits pays the same fine as a millionaire - how is that an effective deterent? Surely people should get an equal punishment for doing the same crime?
No, it's about making sure that people are punished equally, and there is absolutely no way that you can claim that £50 off a millionaire is the same punishment as £50 off someone on benefits. There's obviously an argument for prison sentences instead, in which case there's no issue. But if the penalty is financial, then the only way to ensure that some people aren't getting disproportionately punished is to link the fine to earnings. And even then, the rich will still be better off, because the more money you have, the less essential large amounts of it becomes (in the sense that this man is unlikely to have to cancel any plans because he can no longer afford them, for example).
No issue ?
An extension of your displayed "equality" logic would propagate that the younger the alleged perpetrator, the longer the prison sentence, would it not ?
So on one hand you say he shouldnt be charged more simply because he is rich, then you say he should pay more because he is rich.
SG, your redmist as much as it has valid points at times, has contradicted itself, grow the hell up and think before you post!
Understand now?
Most people could never afford it, and when I mean never afford it, you physically couldnt get the money out of them, do they die in prison then?
And what does the army have to do with this, why bring it up, is it relevant at all?
SG you just need to chill out *hug*
Now, the point about people dying in prison if they couldn't pay. Release them and they can work to pay the money off. Or get a job and take a chunk out of their salary each week/fortnight/month/however often they get paid. There's only a few people I'd happily see dying in prison - we'd be talking about the likes of Ian Huntley there. However, there is a very simple solution to avoiding all these problems in the first place. Mainly by NOT speeding on the roads, by NOT driving around like a complete prick. It's quite an effective answer to the problem. Means you use less petrol in your car, too.
As for the "resident army man" bit, it's because the rules of the forum prohibit me from calling you "that Geordie cunt".
You've hit the nail on the head, lets have prison tax
Oh but you see, there's a problem there. The whole point of the prison system is to rehabilitate people, not pay stupidly huge fines which will be costing MORE than say a retest to see if he can keep his license. Its as much use as banning him from driving for a few months. If he simply didn't pay the fines, they would just amount to more fines, and more, and more. Which would be classed as official loss somewhere down the line.
If this was the solid case for anyone in his position, rich or not, we've be in even more shit. Probably take a guess that suicides and health problems would increase too.
Talk about putting words in my mouth.