tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post115339300858040415..comments2023-10-30T02:03:56.081+13:00Comments on Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty: Police ReportingMaiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212711843307060731noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-1154233347542220332006-07-30T16:22:00.000+12:002006-07-30T16:22:00.000+12:00apart from the costs speeding tickets are a great ...apart from the costs speeding tickets are a great form of revenue gathering.<BR/><BR/>Any sort of tax take causes distortions to behavior - forcing people to do things they don’t want to do because the thing they really want has become harder to do.<BR/><BR/>the god thing about speeding tickets is that the distortion is actually "people obeying the law more" and as a side effect "people not dying on the roads as much".<BR/><BR/>One of the very few places you can get an unambiguously good side effect from tax take.Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624496692217466430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-1153793149140705572006-07-25T14:05:00.000+12:002006-07-25T14:05:00.000+12:00So Mike how is legally giving someone a ticket whe...So Mike how is legally giving someone a ticket when they are breaking the law stealing? It's not as if the police are actively encouraging people to speed and then going "ha ha, we got you, now cough up."<BR/><BR/>If it wasn't the police, but another agency, giving you the ticket, would that still make it "stealing"?Spanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16896745511007816190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-1153545392740344212006-07-22T17:16:00.000+12:002006-07-22T17:16:00.000+12:00it is also stupid to have "maximum" fines (who tho...it is also stupid to have "maximum" fines (who thought of that?) that jsut means certain rich people don't need to worry about breaking the law as long as fines apply.Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624496692217466430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-1153517417420003962006-07-22T09:30:00.000+12:002006-07-22T09:30:00.000+12:00rich poeple should be given fines sufficient to de...rich poeple should be given fines sufficient to deter.<BR/>So if graeme heart does somthing bad he should get a 1 billion dollar fine.<BR/>(I hope he does - we, the nation, have some operations and such to pay for)<BR/><BR/>One of the problems here is the stupid trust system. We allow people to hide money in trusts. <BR/><BR/>AND - sightly streching the point but - the lack of capital gains tax that the rich list guys admitted allowed people to get rich fast in NZ....Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624496692217466430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17759756.post-1153432227075423732006-07-21T09:50:00.000+12:002006-07-21T09:50:00.000+12:00The thing about poor people who steal is that they...The thing about poor people who steal is that they mostly steal from other poor people who can least afford insurance, burglar alarms, decent locks etc.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04797661728002935006noreply@blogger.com