Important PSA
Important PSA
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Would be nice to see fines replaced with community service in many cases. Though I feel like you would then need to ensure that those doing community service are compensated the equivalent of their wage(s) prior to conviction if community service requires you use hours otherwise used by your job. Otherwise, somebody dependent on their job effectively pays more for smaller fines due to loss of work. It would also help to prefer out-of-hours community service (weekends for example) to avoid losing hours from your job in the first place. Ideally, jail would be reserved for cases where the person is a genuine danger, rather than use it as punishment.
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Except then you get the boss' son "making coffee" at daddy's (friend's) company as their "service". The rich will still find a way to game the system.
Which doesn't mean that it's not worth a try!:-)
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San Francisco lets people pay parking fines with community service, and I believe their answer to that would be they require sign offs from preapproved organizations. (Sure, somebody somewhere could take a bribe.)
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Then your job is to protect capital from the poors.
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Punitive damages shouldn't have a cap, and should be even greater than proportional, since it's easier for someone who is richer to live on a smaller proportion of their income.
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Privilege means private law.
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Sailor Moon grows up to be the queen of the moon. Possibly also the Earth, although I can't remember. Either way, she's no ally to the proletariat.
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Apparently, in the end of the manga/anime/movie Sailor Moon makes everyone on the planet immortal in the future. Except for the people who live on the planet Nemesis.
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More sailor moon please
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Final Fantasy Tactics posting, eh?
"Oh, you don't want us to collectivize your land? Sorry, you can blame yourself or blame God."
"So you've made your choice. Die in obscurity!"
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Yuuuuup
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That's why a percentage of income should be the fine. Like the porsche man who got a $400000 fine. Rich prick wasn't laughing all of a sudden.
Several countries use a dayfine system, we in Sweden have used dayfines since 1931, Finland since 1921, Germany since 1969, There are a few more countries using the system, but I could not quickly find any historical data about them.
Dayfines are great and should be used globaly.
Neat!
Just out of curiosity, how does that work for foreigners, they would only be able to tell the income of citizens would they not?
A percentage of income still isn't equitable though.
If you're destitute a week's income means you starve.
If you're a millionnaire a week's income stings bit doesn't affect much.
If you're a billionnaire there is a good chance you don't technically have an income, and if you do you can lose half of your wealth without feeling it.
This is true, but you could still have a progressive fine. Very good point with the billionaire, though. They live in a completely different world, in terms of how their wealth flow works. Still, it seems like an alternative fine system could be worked out that would hit them hard.
The billionaire might not feel it, but the money gained could be significant for all sorts of good things that help lift the burdon of the lower class.
Was just about to say this, too. Fines are totally great if they're a percentage of your wealth.