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GolfPopperyesterday at 11:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Finland links speeding fines to income. I'd like to see something that get far broader application. That prevents the wealthy or huge corporations from seeing lawbreaking as a business cost, without destroying a small business or individual who commits the same crime.


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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 11:24 PM

Proposals like this are how you get the billionaire paying their chauffeur's $50 fines so they can get everywhere faster while sticking some small business owner in an industry with feast or famine years with a $50,000 ticket for having a slightly miscalibrated speedometer.

Creating new arbitrage opportunities benefits the powerful, not the weak.

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