Posted on 05/24/2015 5:46:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Calling California’s traffic court system a “hellhole of desperation” for the poor, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing an amnesty program for residents who can’t afford to pay off spiraling fines and penalties that have resulted in 4.8 million driver’s license suspensions since 2006.
(Excerpt) Read more at kron4.com ...
Governor Brown should read the 14th Amendement
Just make the fines based on percent of income. Around here a speeding ticket equals 1-1/2 days income for the average citizen. Make the sting equal across the board.
Mexicans Can Park Anywhere bill.
Mexican Formula One measure.
Poor people = Good.
Rich people = Bad.
Criminals = Good.
Lawful citizens = Bad.
That’s one F’d up Governor you have there, California...
Don’t be driving a new expensive car in California. You are the person that is going to get pulled over and ticketed.
“Just make the fines based on percent of income. Around here a speeding ticket equals 1-1/2 days income for the average citizen. Make the sting equal across the board.”
Sorry, makes too much sense...
Pays to be broke these days.
Just make the minimum wage $100/ hour and everyone can afford to ‘drive it like you’re illegal’ !
It wouldn’t be all bad. Here it’s the scummy cars that are targeted.
So, given that some have no income, the result might be construed as getting a ticket results in the award of 1.5 days of an anti-fine.
Get a ticket and receive a $120 payment from the court which is a traffic fine credit
(minimum wage $10 * 8 = 80 * 1.5 = $120)
No, we’d have to base it on welfare received or income of whoever supports the driver.
You might want to look at Finland (IIRC) where they do this. Results in $100,000 traffic tickets and police target the well-to-do. We do NOT want to enable any form of means-testing. Do we want what we pay for anything to be based on our income or net worth? I am certain we don’t.
First he gives drivers licenses to illegal aliens, with no requirement to be able to read english, then he tells them they don’t need to pay fines for violating traffic laws.....
” Do we want what we pay for anything to be based on our income or net worth?”
In this case I disagree. A fine is superpose to be a punishment. It makes sense that everybody be punished the same...
It’s hard to argue that a $200 fine to a poor person is the same as a $200 fine to a millionaire.
CA has an interesting system of escalating fines. When I lived there I bought a utility trailer. It cost around $200. It was $25 to register it every year. I used it for a move and then put it away and forgot about it. Because I didn’t send in a change of address on it I never received a renewal notice. About five years later a friend needed a trailer and I offered mine. I went to the DMV to get the license current. Because I hadn’t filed a form stating it was no longer in use they assumed I had used it for five years illegally. With back registration plus fines it would cost $840 to renew, for a $200 trailer. It went back in the garage until we left the state. $10 in the new state.
Translation here is that Hispanics are bitching about all their traffic law breakers who have accumulated backlogs of fines and penalty surcharges
TRANSLATION: Various impoverished illiterate third worlders are racking up huge fines, lots of them and they don’t want to pay jack shyte!!! You stupid whitey pay this stuff and taxes but not us legal and illegal dumbass immigrants
You have that right. Plus California used to have lots of drunk driving check points Most are gone due to too many Hispanics getting their automobiles impounded. As long as it was white guys getting zinged say in 1990 before the huge Mexican-Hispanic invasion no one was sympathetic to those who advanced libertarian arguments against these drunk driving check point. No one cared when white guys were forced to pay out roughly $15,000 for fines, lawyers and mandatory anti-drunk driving classes
The push by the Democratic governor spotlights concern among lawmakers and court administrators that California’s justice system is profiting off minorities and low-income residents. It’s a civil rights issue that has prompted discussions between the Brown administration and the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the governor’s spokesman, Evan Westrup.
It’s not clear if the Justice Department has launched an inquiry into California’s court system. The department did not return requests for comment. Westrup declined to provide details on the meetings with federal officials.
Under Brown’s plan, drivers with lesser infractions would pay half of what they owe, and administrative fees would be slashed from $300 to $50.
http://kron4.com/2015/05/23/california-governor-pitches-amnesty-on-traffic-debt-for-poor/
Here in the Coachella Valley, hispanics very rarely get ticketed; the po-lice know the citations will be ignored. Whitey in a Lexus is another matter, fershur.
Actually, in California, a red-light camera ticket is $500. The majority of cities with all the cameras are in low-income areas, like Santa Ana. That city has red light cameras at almost every intersection. Santa Ana is basically a low-income area. What they have done is an outrage. The tickets are probably a month’s rent. This is not right, I don’t care who you are, they are preying on those who can’t fight back.
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