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Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket: Could such a system work in the U.S.?
The Atlantic ^ | 03/13/2015 | Joe Pinsker

Posted on 03/13/2015 7:13:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

This kind of bs can be pulled off successfully in a mono ethnic country. The rich dude Finn who pays a $10,000 speeding fine figures that at least the money is going to people who he has a biological kinship with.

Similarly you could have such fines in mono-ethnic Japan and Korea


21 posted on 03/13/2015 8:27:21 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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RE: This kind of bs can be pulled off successfully in a mono ethnic country.

With the number of Muslims now being accepted as refugees and immigrants to Scandinavian countries, this assumption is slowly becoming inapplicable.


22 posted on 03/13/2015 8:30:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: Paradox

RE: While I dont agree with the system implemented here, there is something to think about.

we can turn it around and start with this — EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CITIZEN REGARDLESS OF INCOME SHOULD BE PAYING TAXES.

If you are a citizen, you have some stake in the running of the government and defending this country.


23 posted on 03/13/2015 8:32:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Finland is lucky being so far north, it has the fewest Muzzies of any Nordic nation.

Feminazi ruled Sweden is the most deranged when it come to allowing Muslims to immigrate to their lovely nation and to salivate after (and much worse) their lovely women.


24 posted on 03/13/2015 8:38:34 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: The_Reader_David

“I’ve considered this, and the justice of uniform fines independent of income is not so clear.”

I hear you on this one. When I was a student or when I was unemployed to get a ticket that was a few hundred dollars was devastating. Most judges will allow you to make payments, still.

I got a cell phone ticket and the cop said it was only $60, but add on court costs and other fees and it was nearly $200. At the time I only made $1400 a month. I cannot imagine what the car pool ticket ($481 (how’d they get such an odd number) would be with court costs and fees. We do have an amendment that is supposed to limit excessive fines and bail, but it is hardly heeded.

That said, I’m not sure I’d support a system here as the one in the article.


25 posted on 03/13/2015 8:42:27 AM PDT by rey
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To: SeekAndFind

Gosh we already have a system like that here, if your ann illegal you get a pass, if you’re White you get the shaft


26 posted on 03/13/2015 8:59:51 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Karl Marx is smiling in h*ll.


27 posted on 03/13/2015 11:42:08 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SeekAndFind

Equal protection under the law....it wouldn’t work here


28 posted on 03/13/2015 9:14:34 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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