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		brazzy on March 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn't Pay the Same F... > Increasing fines for the 1% can solve at most 1% of the speeding problem. Already incorrect if that 1% of the population commits more than 1% of the speeding offenses because the fines are irrelevant to them.

cousin_it on March 16, 2018 [–]

Point taken, but it's not enough to offset the fact that there are more poor people, and anyway the next point deals with it.

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