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Fining people for not wearing a seat belt I dont support. Victimless crime.

I agree that fines are not an effective deterrent for crime. Very rich people don’t have much income though (elon musk, for example, i think reports $0 income a year, most of there money comes from capital gains or debt against their assets) and poor people have so little income it will probably encourage lawbreaking, which is probably also not desired, so I don’t really support income based fines. It doesn’t seem to accomplish the objective effectively. Perhaps loss of privileges would be more effective, such as losing your license to drive.

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LimitedExpress@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Any unbelted person in a collision becomes an uncontrollable projectile. Which means anyone around the vehicle, and more importantly the child IN her vehicle are at risk of being killed by her flying corpse.

Also, she already had her license taken away, and it apparently didn’t stop her driving.

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- aniki@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t forget the victims of paramedics and fire fighters that will need to come and sponge you off the highway and live with that trauma for the rest of their lives.
  
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So, so, so wrong.

People get flung through windscreens. People in rear seats get flung into the people in the front, killing both of them.

Have you ever seen the aftermath of a rear seat passenger not wearing a seatbelt, then being flung into the back of the front seat, after an 80mph crash into a sycamore tree?

I have. Neither survived. One of them wasn’t even recognisable.

Plus, emergency services have to deal with this shit. Family, friends, others on the road have to deal with the consequences. Don’t be such a fucking moron.

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aniki@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
you’re impressively wrong about everything you typed.

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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can someone explain to me why capital gains taxes are lower than income taxes?

Why is “playing the market with your surplus money” charged less than “working your ass off, day in and day out”?

We have no shortage of capital in this country. The financial sector is twice the size of our manufacturing sector. That is ludicrous.

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