[Conscience of a Conservative]

Ugh. This is worse than doing nothing. By setting the fine at zero, they are implicitly acknowledging that there is nothing wrong with the very act of imposing the fine.

[lee martell]

And they also state there are no teeth to this law of paying the fine, so one can chose to ignore it. The fine is more or less nullified.

[Sacajaweau]

Another viewpoint is: it sets up the case for an indiscriminate fine (tax)...the 1%...then 2.5%...and then 3.5% and who knows what the upper limit may be.

CONGRESS votes to change the tax tables....every year. I think the real problem is no criteria for the percentage.

[rarestia]

By setting the fine at zero, they are implicitly acknowledging that there is nothing wrong with the very act of imposing the fine.

Agreed. This opens the door even just the slightest bit to allow a future Congress to change that number to any number they wish.

It's sort of like the income tax. Initially it was only supposed to affect the highest earners and was just the smallest percentage of a person's income. We all know how that's gone over the decades.