All legal fines are in proportion to actual wealth.

Posted by wiccangame@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 88 comments

Instead of a set fine for say speeding, littering or DUI that applies equally to all, why not make fines hurt equally for all levels of prosperity. A $250 fine is meaningless to a billionaire, but someone below the poverty line? That's going to hurt. Making only $16,000 a year? That's 1/64 of your income. So the same infraction for someone making $16 million a year should be 1/64th of that $$$ amount.