$2,000??? That's alot of money! Guess what happens if you can't pay it?
There have been so many incidences of where these "fines" end up leading to jail. Many people do live paycheck to paycheck. They get fined for this or that, many have no real way of paying the fine. When it goes unpaid for so long, a capius(sp) is issued. A cop decides to pull you over for not signaling, he finds out. The person gets arrested. Many times, the person is trying their best to make ends meet already. They get arrested, they get fired from work. Then they can't pay fines or anything.
Too many people have this erronious mentality that a fine is really less than being jailed. Its not, really. You don't pay the fine, then you are jailed. Its not a lesser punishment, its just extortion. Its no different than the school bully saying "give me your lunch money or get a black eye".