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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Why stop there? There should be special phone lines with different wait times and limited 311 requests for the privileged.

[Anonymous]

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

That's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don’t know why you fail to understand that a $100 punishment is equivalent to a $1000 punishment for someone who makes 10 times more. The point is to feel the weight of the punishment. Someone who is making a million is not going to feel punished with a $100 the same way that someone making $30,000 a year. It’s like saying everyone gets 10 years in prison no matter the crime.

[Anonymous]

We should offer the same discount to seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.

[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.

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

+1

[Anonymous]

I’m old enough to remember when I couldn’t get a life saving Covid vaccine in 2021 because I lived in the wrong DC zone code. This is why trump was elected. Progressives going crazy again. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don’t know why you fail to understand that a $100 punishment is equivalent to a $1000 punishment for someone who makes 10 times more. The point is to feel the weight of the punishment. Someone who is making a million is not going to feel punished with a $100 the same way that someone making $30,000 a year. It’s like saying everyone gets 10 years in prison no matter the crime.

I don't know why you don't understand that a government punishment should be the same for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don’t know why you fail to understand that a $100 punishment is equivalent to a $1000 punishment for someone who makes 10 times more. The point is to feel the weight of the punishment. Someone who is making a million is not going to feel punished with a $100 the same way that someone making $30,000 a year. It’s like saying everyone gets 10 years in prison no matter the crime.

The same remedy is available to both the poor and rich. Don't speed.

[Anonymous]

They could just get rid of fines altogether and make people spend x days in the local jail. That should incentivize everyone to do the right thing.

[Anonymous]

It's this kind of stuff that got Trump elected.

[Anonymous]

Also, the metro is free for anyone who jumps over the barrier.

[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.

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.

As the woke progressives would have us believe, "those people" just can't act like evolved human beings and take responsibility like the rest of us adults. Therefore, it would be unjust to hold them fully responsible for their actions.

[Anonymous]

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

Do they place speed cameras where people are poor, or do they place speed cameras where there's lots of speeding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That shows you that even assuming everything you say about Trump is true, the majority of Americans still chose him over Democrats because of woke krazy policies like this one, applying equity to traffic tickets. Keep doing that, and we will have Trump forever; he will become a king.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

As the woke progressives would have us believe, "those people" just can't act like evolved human beings and take responsibility like the rest of us adults. Therefore, it would be unjust to hold them fully responsible for their actions.

This sentiment is what underpins the progressive approach to policy. It's the bigotry of low expectations and they don't even see it.