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Topic	California may make traffic fines proportional to income
s0nicfan 06/06/17 11:33:27 AM #50:	Doesn't proportional fines to income break the whole concept of "a punishment fitting the crime?" The whole idea of a $100 ticket is someone somewhere determined that cost as what was fair for the crime. If one person gets a $100 ticket and another person gets a $10,000 ticket for the same thing, not only does that destroy the whole "equality" thing, and brings up a question of whether the latter is cruel/unusual punishment, but we now need to consider whether that $10k ticket, in isolation, is fitting for the crime. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:880518448] in California... [t:75401992]...</cite> <quote>Doesn't proportional fines to income break the whole concept of "a punishment fitting the crime?" The whole idea of a $100 ticket is someone somewhere determined that cost as what was fair for the crime. If one person gets a $100 ticket and another person gets a $10,000 ticket for the same thing, not only does that destroy the whole "equality" thing, and brings up a question of whether the latter is cruel/unusual punishment, but we now need to consider whether that $10k ticket, in isolation, is fitting for the crime. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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