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To: Corin Stormhands

Making the new “fees” (Note, not fines - fees) applicable to all would hurt tourism. Mustn’t do that. Major campaign contributors wouldn’t like it.


17 posted on 07/17/2007 3:20:01 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: R. Scott
Making the new "fees" (Note, not fines - fees) applicable to all would hurt tourism.

This is an implicit admission that the new tax (let's call it by its right name; the purpose was to squeeze more money out of the citizens, not to enforce traffic laws) will bite perfectly ordinary drivers -- if it only affected truly bad ones, then keeping them away would be a net benefit (the loss of a few tourist dollars would be more than offset by reduced accident cost).

There are quite a few places where the speed limit drops by 10-20 MPH with grossly insufficient warning. Given that drivers on major roads need to exceed posted limits by 5-10 MPH in order to safely keep up with traffic, that means they will inevitably be 20-30 MPH over when they first hit the speed trap.

73 posted on 07/17/2007 11:38:03 AM PDT by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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