[JeffAtlanta]

When you pay a fine for stealing, you don't get to keep what you stole. You must also pay restitution. The fact that they benefit in the end from their lawbreaking makes this a fee, rather than a fine.

I should have read your post first! You beat me too it.

I don't how people can be missing the issue of restitution. Also, getting fined for a crime does not make a person immune to prosecution if the person commits the crime again.

[Texas Federalist]

I should have read your post first! You beat me too it.

It bears repeating since I haven't heard the point of restitution addressed anywhere in the media.