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    68 days ago

    You’re right, I meant drunk driving, not speeding.

    But some countries take speeding pretty seriously too (as they should). In Norway you get a short jail spell for something like a 30kmh excess. In Switzerland the fines are adjusted for income so that rich speeders pay more - one guy paid over €1 million! Same system in Finland too, I believe.

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      18 days ago

      Speeding and drink driving play a big part in traffic deaths and also the cost of fixing all the people who do survive is totally preventable so I am all for it. Progressive fines sound very fair too, misbehaving companies in some cases also pay a percentage of their profit so why not citizens as well.

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        27 days ago

        My wealthy ex’s family would just pay the tickets, so he never learned.

        I’d beg him not to go 40 in school zones.

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          17 days ago

          Could be that their wealth caused them not to care about fines, if they had to pay 5% of that wealth every time they would definity take it easy in school zones.