ernest breakfield wrote: > besides, if the more affluent person gets a ticket that isn't going to > appear on their record, do you think it's going to have as much impact > on their driving as it would on the minimum wage earner?
Finland has an interesting solution to this. They base fines for speeding on your monthly income, so a rich person suffers as much as a poor one. The very wealthy head of Nokia got a speeding ticket a few years ago that set a new record. It was something like 170,000 Euro.