NYT: A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn’t Pay the Same Fine for Speeding

The New York Times ^ | 03/15/18 | Alec Schierenbeck

[Simon Green]

Sheer idiocy, but illustrative of the "equal outcome" mindset of the Left.

[nwrep]

Unconstitutional.

[2banana]

Equity under the law?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Something like this was done in one of the Scandinavian countries. I seem to remember Norway, but maybe it was one of the others.

Some rather rich guy was hit with a speeding ticket that worked out to over $100K.

Ridiculous.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No equality under the law for you!

[Reno89519]

They tried, maybe still do this, in some places in Europe. If I recall correctly the same ticket ranged from dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is simply another attempt at redistribution and is unconstitutional. Then again, maybe put those idiot ticket writing traffic cams on the roads into and out of the uber rich neighborhoods?

[21twelve]

I believe in some places in Europe it is like this - Sweden perhaps?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/multimillionaire-faces-130-000-speeding-ticket-article-1.1486072

I was close. The guy is a Swedish millionaire - but caught speeding in Finland which has wealth-based fines. $130,000 speeding ticket!

[Mom MD]

Because my 6 figure a year tax bill isn’t enough already. Now they want me to pay through the nose for a speeding ticket? It truly doesnt pay to try to get ahead and make something of yourself

[Mears]

And the rich should pay $150.00 for a loaf of bread and the janitor should pay $.50.

These people are NUTS !!!!!

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[Sgt_Schultze]

Why should a millionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager pay the same as a subway strap hanger for a copy of the NYT?

[Architect of Avalon]

This is making a case for having White Men pay a lot and every other group pay very little.

[Spok]

So much for equal protection under the law. Next: should women with big racks pay the same as a woman with buck teeth? Give judges discretion and there’ll be no limit to silliness.

[Spok]

So much for equal protection under the law. Next: should women with big racks pay the same as a woman with buck teeth? Give judges discretion and there’ll be no limit to silliness.

[Zhang Fei]

Some rather rich guy was hit with a speeding ticket that worked out to over $100K.

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Productive people don’t have to put up with persecution. They can easily move elsewhere. Notice how Nokia is basically waiting for death. Scandinavian apparatchiks understand everything about killing the golden goose. I wonder what happens when these geese fly away, and all they have left are worthless Muslim con artists and religious fanatics they’ve imported with reckless abandon.

[eastforker]

Why have traffic fines at all? If they wanted equality, instead of a fine make the punishment either jail time or community service.

[yarddog]

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”: Karl Marx.

[Eddie01]

The nurse should pay more.

She knew she couldn’t afford the ticket, but challenged Law Enforcement anyway.

[piasa]

This makes no sense- it’s like charging a guy $11,000 for a quarter pounder and fries just because he has more money.

Using this logic, if a poor guy murders a rich gal, he’d get a $10 fine, but if a rich guy does it he’s get the death penalty.

Either way she’s the same corpse.

[fella]

Equality before the law, IS the American dream.

[Intolerant in NJ]

For a justice system committed to treating like offenders alike, scaling fines to income is a matter of basic fairness...maybe in the world you live in, Alec, but not in this one - in the US, we say that all people are equal under the law - regardless of sex, class, race or even wealth - the punishment is set according to the crime, and not the status of the individual (except of course Democrats, who are never guilty of anything to begin with) - in terms you might better understand, you do the crime, you do the time, no matter how little money you have......