right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS?

From : donquijote1954

Q: that the prone to wandering is still thriving out there though is part of multi-million dollar industry that puts anyone behind the wheel and everyone at risk. well so is the ticket industry... traffic tickets are big business traffic tickets are a multi-billion industry. they have virtually nothing to do with highway safety but they have everything to do with money! -traffic tickets heavily fund most court systems. -traffic tickets justify the existence of entire police agencies like state highway patrols. -traffic tickets are often used to justify police departments budget requests. -traffic tickets are used as an excuse to raise the insurance rates for otherwise safe drivers. -traffic tickets virtually fund numerous local governments. when you begin to grasp the full magnitude of the public and private interests that depend on ripping off motorists through traffic tickets you begin to understand why this unethical system continues to expand every year. no one knows how many traffic tickets are actually issued. many local units of government deliberately hide this information so they dont have to split their traffic ticket revenue with the state. not including parking tickets another scam we can estimate that somewhere between 25 and 50 million traffic tickets are issued each year. assuming an average ticket cost of $150.00 the total up front profit from tickets ranges from 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars. if just half of these tickets result in insurance surcharges typically at least $300 over a period of three years you can add another 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars in profit for insurance companies. this is why insurance companies care so much traffic safety programs and are willing to donate millions of dollars worth of radar and laser guns to the police. click here to read more about free laser gun programs. for them its simple more tickets equal more money! http//www.motorists.com/issues/tickets/trafficticketsystem.html .

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From : donquijote1954

mike hunter wrote much ado about nothing it seems. that is one scam one can easily avoid obey the traffic laws. i will be 80 next month and have been driving in since i was 15. i have never had as much as a parking ticket let alone been convicted of a moving violation. i wish we could avoid graduated income tax laws as easily. lol aunt jemima wont get any speeding tickets either if only because shes always slow and inattentive. only the latter bothers me though. .

From : doug kanter

mike hunter wrote much ado about nothing it seems. that is one scam one can easily avoid obey the traffic laws. i will be 80 next month and have been driving in since i was 15. i have never had as much as a parking ticket let alone been convicted of a moving violation. i wish we could avoid graduated income tax laws as easily. lol aunt jemima wont get any speeding tickets either if only because shes always slow and inattentive. only the latter bothers me though. cops here rochester ny have been hammering overly slow drivers since its often a sign of inebriation or an unnoticed death in the family elderly drivers who shouldve had their cars removed long ago. its a very popular law enforcement campaign especially when it nails the morons who get onto a 65mph highway doing 38 and then take a minute to get all the way to 43. .

From : mike hunter

much ado about nothing it seems. that is one scam one can easily avoid obey the traffic laws. i will be 80 next month and have been driving in since i was 15. i have never had as much as a parking ticket let alone been convicted of a moving violation. i wish we could avoid graduated income tax laws as easily. lol mike hunt that the prone to wandering is still thriving out there though is part of multi-million dollar industry that puts anyone behind the wheel and everyone at risk. well so is the ticket industry... traffic tickets are big business traffic tickets are a multi-billion industry. they have virtually nothing to do with highway safety but they have everything to do with money! .