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Man in Finland gets $60,000 speeding ticket
AOL News ^ | 2015 March 4 | AOL

Posted on 03/05/2015 1:37:43 PM PST by xp38

Breaking the law in Finland will cost you, but exactly how much depends on a couple of things. One is the severity of the crime committed, and the other is the lawbreaker's income.

The latter factor is in place to ensure that punishments are equally felt by all be they rich or poor. Due to his millionaire status, Reima Kuisla was handed a roughly 60 thousand dollar ticket for traveling 14 miles per hour over the posted limit.

Before issuing the citation, authorities looked up the man's 2013 tax return and calculated the amount accordingly.Though the ticket value is based on long-standing law, Kuisla feels that he's been treated unfairly.

He wrote on his Facebook page, "Finland is impossible to live in for certain kinds of people who have high incomes and wealth."

Before the age of technology, the nation's top earners did have a bit of a loophole. Back then when asked to state their annual income, a number of them just lied. Though numerous rich people have complained about the sliding scale system, based on responses to Kuisla's grievances, not everybody is sympathetic to their woes.

One individual astutely pointed out, "If you follow the rules you won't have to pay fines."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: confiscatoryfines; donutwatch; finland; fleeced; grandtheft; highwayrobbery; marxism; redistribution; revenuetickets; thugwithabadge
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To: a fool in paradise

Those kind of laws are idiotic, I hope all their wealthy leave


61 posted on 03/05/2015 3:08:27 PM PST by GeronL
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Equality under the law would be better


62 posted on 03/05/2015 3:09:33 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Zeppo

“If they’re going to pro-rate the fine, they ought to also pro-rate the speed limit.”

Touché !


63 posted on 03/05/2015 3:14:28 PM PST by vladimir998 (")
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To: xp38

So in Finland.. rich people hire poor people to drive them really really fast?


64 posted on 03/05/2015 3:41:42 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Maybe all the punishments should be corporal. Everybody would suffer equally.

Finland had corporal punishment (for drunk driving) back in the 1960s.

65 posted on 03/05/2015 4:33:34 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: TexasGator
" if you have no income you have no real deterrent for disobeying the law."

They'll come up with an earned income violation credit. If you're poor they will give you a tax refund if you double park.

66 posted on 03/05/2015 4:35:06 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Red Badger

Wealthy people still need insurance and can have their license revoked if they get too many points.

Making fines cost different amounts for different incomes is not equal treatment under the law. Are we going to put wealthy people in prison longer because their time is “worth more”?

If you go down this road law enforcement will be pulling over only expensive cars to maximize their take.

It is fundamentally wrong to treat the wealthy differently under the law - either way.


67 posted on 03/05/2015 4:45:07 PM PST by DB
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To: Red Badger

And as far as your “HOLY CRAP”, if that is the case, then you can’t afford to speed and that’s your choice.


68 posted on 03/05/2015 4:47:01 PM PST by DB
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

The point of fines is to inflict pain - No its a big revenue generator, the point is to pack the gubmit bank account. The fact it causes you pain, is just tough shite.


69 posted on 03/05/2015 4:56:56 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I saw that too when I drove through that commie province last summer. It’s extremely retarded.

You don’t understand kph? Kilometers an hour? It’s far less complex than imperial. Personally, I use imperial for most things except ranging targets. We always used meters in Canadian Infantry. I’m also old enough to have learned both systems in school.

1000 meters is 1km. 60km/h is also self explanatory. Basically, all the numbers are divisible by ten etc and makes things easy and quick to calculate.

Of course our rural lands are still in mile quarters etc, and a lot of us will still say.. just head down this road another mile and turn right, go a quarter mile and the farm is on the south side of the road.

It helps me to know both though though.

As far as Ontario goes, if it went up in a mushroom cloud, nobody would miss it, same for Quebec lol (evacuate the women first, they’re hot) lol.


70 posted on 03/05/2015 6:30:11 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: xp38
I'd say it represents the simple game of: "How far can we push them and still get away with it?"

They're saying.. "Pay us $60-thousand because we need all the money we can extract."

71 posted on 03/05/2015 6:39:23 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: DB
.. then you can’t afford to speed and that’s your choice.

Not around here. There's small town police forces here (population 300) that give out speeding tickets as a revenue raising device. Dukes of Hazzard types that do not care if you were speeding or not, you get a ticket anyways.

I have paid several 'fines' over the years to these crooks knowing full well that I wasn't speeding but it's too expensive to fight in court. Some of these towns have reputations so bad that the state will not even count the tickets against your license if you get a ticket from them.

Here's one example:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210486/posts

And they are not the only one, nor are they unique. A similar thing happened to the town I am sitting just a half mile from right now. and the Ft. Walton police lost their rights to issue citations on Hwy 98 years ago because of their over zealous ticket writing.....................

72 posted on 03/06/2015 6:39:57 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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