RE: A8: going, going

[Preferred Customer <gpowell@acacianet.com>]

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> He was lucky.  The normal fine for double the speed limit is a month's salary.

Wow.

Remind me not to speed over there.

Of course, the "X month's salary" makes sense. I've always wondered
when the US would do something like this. A fixed fine of, say, $100
means very different things to a factory worker supporting a family
on $8/hour than a lawyer or doctor making $300K/year.

Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7)			duane@zk3.dec.com

That concept is morally bankrupt and TOTALLY ABSURD! The punishment must fit the crime. Punishment is and must remain totally unrelated to the means of the criminal. Do the crime - do the time. No more, no less. Here in the US we have a legal and constitutional requirement of _equal protection_ under the law. Same for me, same for you and same for bubba.

-glen