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Check out how fast this guy was driving his benz. Here is what I find iffy....if you are in Sweden and you are speeding your are fined based on your wealth. They want to give this guy a $1,000,000 ticket. I find that a little over the edge, I dont care how fast you are going. It should be some kind of endangerment charge, but not a 7 figure fine. Sounds like class warfare to me in a way.
A Swedish motorist caught driving at 290km/h (180mph) in Switzerland could be given a world-record speeding fine of SFr1.08m ($1m; £656,000), prosecutors say.
The 37-year-old, who has not been named, was clocked driving his Mercedes sports car at 170km/h over the limit.
Under Swiss law, the level of fine is determined by the wealth of the driver and the speed recorded.
In January, a Swiss driver was fined $290,000 - the current world record.
Local police spokesman Benoit Dumas said of the latest case that "nothing can justify a speed of 290km/h".
"It is not controllable. It must have taken 500m to stop," he said.
The Swede's car - a Mercedes SLS AMG - has been impounded and in principle he could be forced to pay a daily fine of SFr3,600 for 300 days.
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well. if everybody knows the law? then it's not really unfair to him.
i suppose their argument is that a 100$ fine to a guy with 20 million in the bank isn't the same as a 100 fine to smoebody with 100 in the bank and that's true enough isn't it?
you can flip that and say that killing a healthy child with 70 years of life in front of them isn't the same as killing a healthy 80 yr old with 5 yrs left in front of them...
true enough again, but......
when we get into the world of finance and business? alot of "civil" crimes occur because the penalty is just a cost of doing business... that's not fair either is it? Esp since it is very rare for the injured party to be made whole again...
i really don't care what the speeding fines in Europe are to be honest with you..
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That's a really good observation.. Something we already know but good point. Even glorious socialism produces a monstrous wealth gap..
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quote:Originally posted by Relentless.: That's a really good observation.. Something we already know but good point. Even glorious socialism produces a monstrous wealth gap..
that's why this whole GOP campaign against Obama's socialistic tendencies is a loser.... It doens't really destroy weakth at all, and hte same people who are welathy under the current so-called capitalistic sytem we now have would still be wealthy if we did switch...
IF the GOP wants to step up to the table and get some power back, (instead of just whining and moaning about how bad the Dems are?) they are going to have to campaign on Immigration. That's Obama's real weak spot. He want's to throw open the borders and let everybody in.
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I can't imagine it matters who is "in power".. The same pointless policies will be implemented regardless.
I can't find the energy to care at all what supposed affiliation a politician has... It's all the same.
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That's why people should stick with an issue (or issues) to debate. As soon as any given politician's name is attached to anything, the "other side" starts chunking...
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but it does matter who is in power. The health care bill is good example. It is more appropriate to say that the politicians have become (only) the power brokers instead of the real power.
I'm pretty sure that most people do not realise that our elected officials (for the most part)don't even write the laws they vote on anymore.
The "lobbyists" write them and submit them to the politicians. The politicians then all get together and negotiate between them whose writings get to be included. Then they vote.
That's how the health care bill ended up requiring people to purchase health care insurance even if they don't want to. Fining people for not buying it is going to be difficult to reconcile with the constitution. It's not impossible and it will be interesting to see if the "consrvatives' on SCOTUS end up favoring more Federal Power or more State Power when it does finally get in front of them. Had the GOP WANTED to, they could have formed a block of votes large enough to actually force something very differnt. The fact is they didn't want to, because they get paid by the same lobbyists that wrote the crap.... This way? They get to step back and tqalk like they didn't want it at all, but their funding machines most certainly did. IF they get back in power? They won't mess with it, watch and see...Thats because you are correct (that it doesn't matter) to a large degree, but not entirely. The GOP would not have embarked upon a health care plan at all..
The so-called Conservaitves on the high court have mostly favored more power to the Feds so they'll be in an unusual place...
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