Really needs to be standard practices to define fines and penalties as a percentage of a person’s income the way some places in Europe do. It would probably end up lowering fines a lot for normal people, but rich assholes like this guy might actually start to care when they’re having to pay enough money to actually notice.
But that would break the system that keeps the rich free and the poor incarcerated and even more impoverished. The rich suffer enough as it is when they commit a crime, judges consider how much their lawyers and crisis management PR firms bill and deduct that from the final fine. The poor get a free ride on public defenders. Won’t someone think of the rich’s feelings?!?
Really needs to be standard practices to define fines and penalties as a percentage of a person’s income the way some places in Europe do. It would probably end up lowering fines a lot for normal people, but rich assholes like this guy might actually start to care when they’re having to pay enough money to actually notice.
But that would break the system that keeps the rich free and the poor incarcerated and even more impoverished. The rich suffer enough as it is when they commit a crime, judges consider how much their lawyers and crisis management PR firms bill and deduct that from the final fine. The poor get a free ride on public defenders. Won’t someone think of the rich’s feelings?!?