DC giving 50 percent discount on traffic tickets to bad drivers, so long as they're poor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, my family's income is well over twice what it would take to get food stamps, so it makes sense that we would pay twice as much for tickets.

If I was ever to become impoverished, and had to budget as hard as people on food stamps do, I'm pretty sure that the $100 once in a while we spend on tickets would be pretty close to most of my family's unobligated spending money for the month. So, I don't begrudge the decrease.

Half the city is going to qualify for this once DOGE is done with its layoffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is great. I'm all for it.

Is there a 50 percent off coupon for mowing down pedestrians?

[Anonymous]

This is another Bowser stupidity and why Trump should take over the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it hurt less if you get run over by a driver who is poor?

https://51st.news/discounted-speeding-tickets-dc-pilot-program/

A typical case of reverse discrimination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I applaud this heartily. Fines are regressive taxes - they are practically nothing for the wealthy but can become a spiraling burden for the poor.

Regressive taxes are bad.

A spiraling burden for the poor WHO REFUSE TO DRIVE SAFELY. They could just obey the speed limit and they'd owe nothing at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is great. I'm all for it.

Is there a 50 percent off coupon for mowing down pedestrians?

That 50% is surely going to mean people will be lining up to mow down pedestrians. I didn’t realize the only incentive they had not to do that was the full price of the traffic ticket!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is another Bowser stupidity and why Trump should take over the city.

Yeah the man of law and order. Other than murdering the crowds on January 6 in your city of course….or sexual and tax crimes, but other than that totally upstanding.

[Anonymous]

Seem fair because they place more speed cameras in the areas with poor people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I applaud this heartily. Fines are regressive taxes - they are practically nothing for the wealthy but can become a spiraling burden for the poor.

Regressive taxes are bad.

+100

Charge rich people $1,000 and poor people $20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I applaud this heartily. Fines are regressive taxes - they are practically nothing for the wealthy but can become a spiraling burden for the poor.

Regressive taxes are bad.

+100

Charge rich people $1,000 and poor people $20.

You think poor people should be allowed to drive dangerously with impunity? Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Different rules, for different people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I applaud this heartily. Fines are regressive taxes - they are practically nothing for the wealthy but can become a spiraling burden for the poor.

Regressive taxes are bad.

God, I hate this particular mantra.

It isn't a tax, it's a sanction for breaking the law. It is 100% avoidable.

It's progressive bu11sh!t like this that makes good old fashioned liberals like me really fear for the democratic party

[Anonymous]

Why stop at tickets? The poor should receive discounted jail time as well. They don't have the resources to spend an extended amount of time away from the family they support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, my family's income is well over twice what it would take to get food stamps, so it makes sense that we would pay twice as much for tickets.

If I was ever to become impoverished, and had to budget as hard as people on food stamps do, I'm pretty sure that the $100 once in a while we spend on tickets would be pretty close to most of my family's unobligated spending money for the month. So, I don't begrudge the decrease.

Congratulations. You must feel very good about yourself.

Government fines and punishments should be the same for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I applaud this heartily. Fines are regressive taxes - they are practically nothing for the wealthy but can become a spiraling burden for the poor.

Regressive taxes are bad.

EXACTLY! This is not a hard concept people.

Right? What do people want to do jail poor people who can't pay fines?