‘All about the money’: Motorists plagued by sky-high Calif. traffic ticket fines
Not to claim Fox News is always accuarte, but this doesn't seem like it is anything but an excellent example of just how our government has gone off the rails to pay for all the things they want to give to everyone in exchange for their loyalty. Seems a poster child for what most people seem to think of our current masters....
I think these liberals should go for broke and provide the free utopia to all who don't want to work or produce.
I have no idea why they are complaining they are only paying more of their fair share.
Glad one of my brothers became retried and moved out of that state of delusions.
If they are used primarily for revenue collection vs law enforcement (which seems to be the case, oftentimes) it is basically dishonest. If you're gonna tax me, at least be honest about it.
Seems like they could easily be converted (if they are not already) into surveillance and tracking cameras, to monitor the activity of objectivists and other subversives ;-) Remember, it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you!
(just kidding on that second point ... or AM I?)
In my city the biggest abuse is parking tickets downtown. The city has marked whole neighborhoods where people work during the day as 2 hour zones, so we have to move our cars 3 times daily. This is supposedly to benefit the environment. MY ASS IT IS!
IF and it's a stretch they are protecting us from Terrorists and not just the government from it's citizens why not just arrest themselves?
Show me any intersection where there's a red-light camera that's making money, and I'll show you at least one of these facts:
1) The yellow light is set too short, and increasing it by half a second will make so many of the violations go away that it won't pay to operate the camera any more;
2) The camera operator has moved the vehicle-detector loop so that in at least some conditions, it is impossible to get the light to turn green without committing a violation; and/or
3) Nearly all of the tickets are for right-on-red-without-quite-stopping, which is not an unsafe practice and should be legalized.
The accidents the cameras cause, of course, are people slamming on the brakes and getting rear-ended because of the short yellow.