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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by koolba on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:46PM (#29003603)
The solution to that is to make them pay in person after waiting in line for an hour. An hours time to the guy making $150K is worth much more than any flat fine.
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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by ModernMech on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:58PM (#29003784)
If you make a poor person drive down to the DMV and wait in line to pay a fine they will likely loose a day of work (which they cannot afford to lose) or perhaps even their job entirely (can't make your shift? Sorry, don't come back to work). A richer person will lose some money, but on the other end they will still be essentially where they were when they started.
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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by kennywinker on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:29PM (#29004272)
Not to mention the side-industry of "DMV line placeholders" that would immediately pop up.
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