Isn’t Switzerland also the county that issues traffic ticket fines based on income and how much you can afford to pay?
Or am I thinking of another socialist country?
RE: Isn’t Switzerland also the county that issues traffic ticket fines based on income and how much you can afford to pay?
Not on Switzerland but also in other EU countries...
See here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34792272/#.UovIItJDvfU
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European countries are increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore tickets.
Advocates say a $290,000 speeding ticket slapped on a millionaire Ferrari driver in Switzerland was a fair and well-deserved example of the trend.
Germany, France, Austria and the Nordic countries also issue punishments based on a person’s wealth. In Germany the maximum fine can be as much as $16 million compared to only $1 million in Switzerland. Only Finland regularly hands out similarly hefty fine to speeding drivers, with the current record believed to be a $190,000 ticket in 2004.
The Swiss court appeared to set a world record when it levied the fine in November on a man identified in the Swiss media only as “Roland S.” Judges in the eastern canton of St. Gallen described him as a “traffic thug” in their verdict, which only recently came to light.
“As far as we’re concerned this is very good,” Sabine Jurisch, a road safety campaigner with the Swiss group Road Cross.