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Re:Privatizing Poverty by Nib9fith on Friday August 24, 2018 @08:39AM (#17834525)
Most countries in western europe have a concept of day-fines. It's averaged income minus essential expenses multiplied by some amount of time.

Fictional example: speeding 20km/h above the limit gets 30 day-fines. So they'll calculate how much you'd earn in 30 days, subtract essentials and that's your fine.

Re:Privatizing Poverty by bo1024 on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:15AM (#17834723)
This could be a problem in the US because of how "income" is measured and reported by the rich (among many reasons).
Re:Privatizing Poverty by Nib9fith on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:42AM (#17835196)
It would still help the poorest. Figuring out how to define income for the upper end could be done separately.