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To: allmendream
Virginia sees its citizens, and especially non-citizen’s driving through, as a potential revenue stream through excessive fines - and little more.

Funny you mention out-of-staters. A few years ago Virginia enacted a law that would impose a $3000 reckless driver fee on someone who was convicted of said offence. The problem was that they could not impose the fee on out-of-state drivers since those cars were not registered in Virginia. The law was ultimately struck down and later repealed for those reasons. What is scary is that the law was never challenged on the grounds that it was cruel and unusual punishment.

31 posted on 02/15/2011 7:36:22 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102
Not just the 8th Amendment, but also the privileges or immunities clause.

The Constitution clearly says there cannot be one set of laws for the residents of the State and another set for residents of other States.

A California tax on vehicles brought in from out of State was found to violate this provision.

No doubt the $3,000 “reckless driving” fee for out of state drivers would have also been found so upon those grounds.

33 posted on 02/15/2011 7:45:57 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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