Finnish citations like speeding are based on a percentage of income. That way they are as painful for the rich as they are for poor.
Makes a certain sort of sense.
I am not generally in favor of means testing but there is some logic here. It is supposed to be a punishment (buying a house or a hamburger is not). It is a very inequitable punishment. Give me a $460 fine for running a red light (this happened to me. . . I was according to their ticket 1/10 of 1 second into the red!) hurts me
FAR MORE
than if it happened to my boss. It would be nothing to him. He wouldn’t blink, for me it was devastating.
So the punishment is not equal, and that is what this supposed to be, a punishment.
Still, I don’t have a solution, because as wisely pointed out, they will target better cars for tickets in this case. Or follow millionaires around.