Odyssey Incorporated: Fair Fines

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Fair Fines

I had a friend, whose boss lost his licence.

The boss made driving him around part of my friend's job description.

One day she got a fine, which she couldn't afford to pay, and she lost her licence.

Subsequently, she lost her job and the boss got another one of his employees to drive him around.

A one-hundred-dollar fine means poverty for one man and nothing to another...

It's a sad story and illustrates the unfairness of fines. Let's make every fine have two parts:
1. Community Service
2. A fine as a percentage of your previous year's income

That seems a lot more fair, don't you think?

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