Posted on 05/06/2015 8:03:59 PM PDT by 11th_VA
To the editor: The 8th Amendment to the U.S Constitution forbids imposing excessive fines. Courts have found a fine to be excessive when it is arbitrary, capricious or "so grossly excessive as to amount to a deprivation of property without due process of law."
The California Vehicle Code fine structure apparently meets this standard. However, if violators were provided the option of performing community service to work off their fines, the financial impact could be substantially reduced, thereby resolving the 8th Amendment issue.
Further, for the most part, the money raised from the add-on charges is being used to fund programs that are unrelated to the underlying violations and are traditionally funded by taxes through the state's general fund. The add-on fines are imposed to increase state revenues and are therefore underground taxes imposed without the required legislative processes.
If so, the imposition of these assessments must be halted, and those who have been improperly taxed deserve a refund.
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You’re bitching about about legitimate Americans complaining about these obscene government fines and money shake downs for relatively minor traffic infractions?
But you’re not talking about tens of millions from Mexico, El Salvador, Columbia etc., who disrespect and defecate on ALL our laws and rules as a matter of routine while your government rewards them with tax paid prizes and gifts.
Interesting set of priorities ya got there Ben.
Who makes these laws anyway? Seems to me the people who have the power to change the laws are the ones doing the bitching.
Illegal immigration is not the subject of this thread. Start an illegal immigration thread and I will comment there. Actually my views on illegal immigration have been well expressed in this forum since I first joined in 1998.
Really, I don't ever recall voting on or recall anyone asking me if the fines for traffic infractions should be doubled and tripled. How about you Ben?
Illegal immigration is not the subject of this thread.
The thread is about steep traffic fines being unconstitutional. You're the one who implying the American people are ignoring laws and rules when in fact your corrupt government is making up rules as they go along.
And do you think with tens of millions entering illegally which government aids and abets have not totally undermined and compromised the electoral process?
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