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Re:Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year by bsder on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:32PM (#36623382)
They're called taxes. You want the service--pay for it.

Using fines as a "revenue source" introduces so many perverse incentives into the system that it automatically becomes corrupt.

See: the incestuous relationships between the towing/repossession companies and the police.

Fines are good as deterrent. Fines should always go back to the public--they should never become state revenue. This breaks the incentives.

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