Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a...
by fossuser on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:57PM
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I think there are more options available.
I'd be partial to keep fines, but protect the lower bound from cascading failure.
> "Nobody is going to stop making money because their parking tickets go up in cost. That's not how people work."
There is evidence already of incentives changing behavior with the recent stimulus. I think it is how people work.
Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a...
by kennywinker on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:13PM
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There is popular consensus that stimulus has change behavior. There’s very little evidence that is actually the case.
1) keep the current system (fixed fines) 2) proportional fines (higher fines for wealthier violators) 3) abandon penalty fines entirely for another system
For most cases I'd like to see #3, since I think fines are basically a bad system of social control. However, there are going to be cases where we want to keep fines there - and for those cases #1 continues to enforce class structures, while #2 applies pressure evenly across class.
Also, sorry, I don't accept that last point. Nobody is going to stop making money because their parking tickets go up in cost. That's not how people work.