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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious if you have heard about this new proposed law for DC.  Basically if you were to receive a ticket from a traffic camera you would get a $100 fine.  If you can prove that you have a lower Household income, the price you would have to pay would be on a sliding scale.  My ticket could be $100, yours could be $20.

More controversially, Mayor Bowser wants to use more than a half-billion dollars worth of revenue from a planned expansion of traffic cameras — which target speeding, red light-running, stop sign violations, and more — to help close the four-year budget gap. Under a traffic safety plan approved by the D.C. Council, the number of cameras across the city is expected to leap from 140 now to almost 500 in the coming years. But Bowser is also creating a task force to consider options of how to mitigate the cost of steep traffic camera fines on low-income drivers (including a possible sliding scale of fines depending on income) ...

I am of the camp that says "do the crime, pay the time".  Why should people that break the law be treated defiantly based on income?

Thoughts?
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Lol I too can print out a fake W-2.

Also aren’t the fines effectively zero now?  What difference does it make if there are no repercussions for not paying the fines?[/quote]

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