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The easiest would be to compare this to giving fines based on net worth.
If you own a home and car your net worth could be in the range of 100-200k dollars.
You happy to receive a fine of 10k dollars? That surely is nothing for you, I mean its 5-10% of your net worth.
I'd argue for a lot of people even a fine of 1k dollars would put them back quite a bit.
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The easiest would be to compare this to giving fines based on net worth.
If you own a home and car your net worth could be in the range of 100-200k dollars.
You happy to receive a fine of 10k dollars? That surely is nothing for you, I mean its 5-10% of your net worth.
I'd argue for a lot of people even a fine of 1k dollars would put them back quite a bit.