US Politics on Yik Yak | my hot take of the day is that fines should be based off of a percentage of your household income (something you need to submit to pay taxes, by the way). a $1,000 fine is nothing if you make a million dollars. crimes shouldn’t be thought of as a tax.

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US Politics 17h

my hot take of the day is that fines should be based off of a percentage of your household income (something you need to submit to pay taxes, by the way). a $1,000 fine is nothing if you make a million dollars. crimes shouldn’t be thought of as a tax.

Anonymous 16h

there are a few reasons why we say we have a two-tier justice system that favors the rich. this is one of those reasons.

Anonymous 14h

Ironically your proposal for fines is closer to our tax system than the current situation. Fully agree on percentage based though

Anonymous 15h

Unfortunately, this would probably be very hard to implement in practice. Whoever is issuing the fine is not and honestly should not be privy to info about your income.

Anonymous

#2 15h

the person issuing the fine is the federal government who is already privy to info about your income as it currently stands

Anonymous

OP 14h

The IRS is privy to that. There’s a reason that illegal income can be reported to the IRS, and that’s because they don’t just share that info with federal law enforcement. And I’m not so sure that most fines are issued by the federal government. States and municipalities issue lots of fines. Speeding tickets aren’t issued by the secret service.