Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by renewiltord on Saturday December 27, 2025 @09:07PM
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Haha this is a classic Bay Area solution. It’s why you have a low-income discount if you speed 120 mph over the speed limit and get caught by the camera. It is well known that if you get hit by a poor person speeding at 145 mph it hurts less.
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So you somehow think that the $300 fine deters or hurts the person making $200k a year the same that it does the person making $20k per year?
It's not that the poor person speeding is any less dangerous than the rich person speeding, it's that the $300 fine doesn't really matter to the rich person. It's just a price they're willing to pay on random occasions to go faster.
Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by renewiltord on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:51AM
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We already have points as a wealth-invariant mechanism to affect drivers. No one has demonstrated that a flat percentage of income has a flat response curve. Given you already have a wealth-invariant mechanism, the fact that you are trying to add something else makes me think it’s not about wealth invariance.