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tool wrote:Well, the mack-daddy... ahhh, "Big Brother" caught my ass rolling through one of the lights south of market a few months ago.

poptart wrote:

The State wrote:
Oh yeah, fuck those "Red Light Camera" pieces of shit... that made me jump through these hoops while I was getting my buzz on.. with the goose.

The State wrote:Exam passed: 04-29-2015
Exam percentage (First Attempt): 80%

Goober McTuber wrote:

The State wrote:Exam passed: 04-29-2015
Exam percentage (First Attempt): 80%

suckaholic is LOLing at you.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:I just want to stick around long enough for shutyomouth to post a pic of a homeless man pissing himself...
...then I'm calling it a night.

The State wrote:If you live in a shithole... you probably don't have enough people where you live to have these god-forsaken pieces of shit tracking your illegal behavior on "The Streets of San Francisco"... errr shithole you live in.

Well, the mack-daddy... ahhh, "Big Brother" caught my ass rolling through one of the lights south of market a few months ago.

Time to rein in California's traffic ticket surcharges

Tne reason you pay so much when you are ticketed for, say, driving with a broken
taillight is that there's a surcharge added to your ticket to help victims of violent
crimes. There's also an add­on that pays for training police officers, another to provide
services to people with traumatic brain injuries, another to build new court facilities and one to
protect the state's wildlife.

In fact, about 80% of what Californians pay for their moving violations isn't part of the base fine at
all, but is necessary to cover the many assessments and surcharges tacked on over the years to pay
for state and county government operations that have nothing to do with cars or driving.
These add­ons have raised billions of dollars over the five decades since the first assessment was
levied on traffic tickets, a modest 5% charge to fund driver education programs in schools. But
enthusiasm for this seemingly bottomless funding source has gone too far. Tickets are now so
expensive that people are increasingly not paying them even though the alternative is the loss of a
driver's license or jail time.

As a result, ticket revenue has been declining; over the last eight years, the state has run up about
$10 billion in uncollected debt from unpaid tickets. Several of the funds that rely on ticket fines —
including the Peace Officer's Training Fund — are facing insolvency next year in part, officials say,
because of offenders' failure to pay.

Is it any surprise that many people aren't paying when a typical ticket with a base fine of $100 is
laden with so many add­ons that the final cost is nearly $500? And a ticket with a base fine of
$500 will run you nearly $2,000. Don't pay immediately, and a $300 penalty is added.
A recent report by a coalition of civil rights groups noted that excessive traffic fees, combined with
harsh penalties for missed deadlines and reduced access to courts, have led to more than 4 million
Californians' losing their licenses over the last eight years. Only a fraction of them have been able
to get their licenses back, in part because doing so requires full payment.

The price of a ticket ought to be set by government in an effort to disincentivize misbehavior on the
roads. It should not be raised every time government needs money for a program — even a worthy one.

Gov. Jerry Brown, to his credit, is proposing an amnesty his second since taking office. For those
who qualify, outstanding debt would be cut in half. In 2012, when he vetoed a bill that would have
added an additional $1 per ticket for spinal cord injury research, Brown wrote: "Loading more
and more costs on traffic tickets has been too easy a source of new revenue. Fines should be based
on what is reasonable punishment, not on paying for more general fund activities."

Brown should go further and propose legislation to reassess years and years of piled on
surcharges. Yes, there will still be revenue at the end of the process, but the overriding goal should
be to price tickets so that they are sufficiently punitive but not unaffordable for millions of
Californians.

What we pay for when we pay traffic tickets

Aout 80% of what you pay for a traffic ticket in California is not part of the base fine, but covers a variety of assessments and fees tacked on to pay for state and local programs. The State Penalty Assessment, for example, supports driver training, long-term care for those with traumatic brain injury, training for public defenders, victims of violent crimes, protection of wildlife and training for corrections and parole officers, among other things. And that's only the start of the good deeds funded by speeders and red-light runners. Here's a list of the add-ons:

1. State penalty assessment fund: $10 for every $10 in base fine

2. County penalty assessment fund: $7 for every $10 in base fine

3. Emergency medical services: $2 for every $10 in base fine

4. DNA database: $5 for every $10 in base fine

5. Court facility construction: $5 for every $10 in base fine

6. Air ambulance service: $4 fee per fine

7. State surcharge for general fund: 20%

8. Court operations: $40 fee per fine

9. More court facility construction: $35 per fine

10. Night court: $1 fee per fine

The State wrote:Mikey, you can knock down that $500 fine... down to around $340 if you do it legit... and take a class and have the point removed.


Or you can take the advise of a "lawyer" not smart enough to practice "law" where the "big boys" play.


I just passed the class last night... in around an hour and a half... and didn't have to deal with lawyers.


Good luck.

mvscal wrote:Only mstool views getting ass raped by the government as a sign of sophistication.