This sort of tax strikes me as regressive, since it will disproportionately affect poor people. Of course, most fines are like that. But apparently in Scandinavia costs for things like traffic tickets bear some sort of connection to the person's salary, so that there was a famous case of a Nokia executive stopped for speeding on a motorcycle and paying the equivalent of $50,000 or something for the ticket. Which really is important, because in order for these sorts of taxes to have an effect on people's behavior, they have to be using amounts of money that provide relevant incentives for people.
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Date: 2008-12-11 07:13 am (UTC)