Speeding Fines

[andrewducker]

octopoid_horror let me know about the Finnish system of administering speeding fines:
KPH over the speed limit x daily salary.

So if you're 10KPH over the speed limit and earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, then you're in for quite a large fine.

Apparently this is how all reasonable sized fines work in Finland - they're expressed in days of pay.

I'm in favour.

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And people often cross the rooad when you overtake on these duel carriageways? No.

I suspect you are working from a deeply *different* theory of motorised travel than I am.

Is it nice in 1930, where you live?

Now how is THAT fair exactly?

You appear to once again be deliberately ignoring my point: Fees dependent on the ability of the criminal to pay are more fair than set fees, even if the specifics aren't quite to our liking.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

You claim I am deliberately ignoring your point, but completely ignoerd my last paragraph. How selective of you.

I AGREE that means paying is better than fixed fines. Do I have to repeat myself in every single thread with you? My problem is that the finnish scheme is utterly fucked up and actually worse than the UK scheme due to the way it is implemented.

"Is it nice in 1930, where you live?"

Keep those strawman arguments going; they are working so well for you right now....