Precisely. The very people the state should want to help keep legal as a matter of policy (and are most in threat of not becoming so) will now be pounded farther down.
A very good point. Have you ever noticed that most laws actually punish the poor or uneducated more than those with greater resources. It creates a system whereby the offenders are forced into having more and more infractions heaped on them by the state for not being well enough off to address what are initially minor violations. I had a neighbor who did not have enoughto fix her car for emissions testing and when finally able to comply was hit with another $120.00 in fines. If she had been more affluent this would not have happened.
Maybe it's time to scale fines according to ability to pay, as they do in Germany, for violations on the autobahn.