Generating income and saving fuel a win win!

[Chesapeake Bill]

We just removed our signage...it was easier than changing the minds of thousands of fools...

[ecduzitgood]

It is just a potential way of generating income from the people who are causing problems or cost for others who are doing things the right way. The government is looking for more money and want everyone to pay/contribute through taxation and I think they could increase the amount of revenue not by just taxing everyone that pays taxes, but by taxing the bad seeds in society more.
There are plenty of people who do the wrong thing whether it be littering, parking incorrectly, driving recklessly, etcetera.
Take distracted driving for instance. There are laws in place to try and curb the amount of texting being done by drivers but catching someone who is texting while driving isn't easy to do. Why not impose hefty fines on drivers who have been involved in an accident if by checking cellphone records it if found they were using their cell phone when the incident took place.
I just feel there are so many people who do disruptive things causing increased cost to others that either don't care or don't realize they are part of the problem. They won't take suggestions or listen to others and change their behavior voluntarily so I say make them pay and then they might change their ways.
Our town has imposed a fine for people who do not pick up after their dogs. This is a policy I agree with yet I do not see it working well. I suggest they fine people who don't have a bag with them either empty or full when walking their dogs. The police are not that busy in our town that they couldn't find the time to check some people walking their pets the same way they find time to pull over someone for an expired inspection sticker. Or perhaps the citizens could help enforce some laws through the use of modern technology by videotaping offenders and submitting the videos to the police or town offices who could then identify and fine the offenders. They could even give the person providing such evidence a percentage of the fine that is collected, somewhat of a non-unionized low cost police force if you will.

I can only learn how wrong I am if you educate me, so don't hold back.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

I can only learn how wrong I am if you educate me, so don't hold back.

OK.
I'll be blunt. You seem like an awfuly angry guy.... at least based on your various posts lately...

You really want cops to focus on driving around and busting people who don't have a poop bag handy? Seriously?

[FishermanTim]

Problem with this kind of thinking is that it's based on enotions more than logic. (Not saying you're illogical by any means).
Here's my take:
You could impose fines, and fines on top of fines, but if the fine revenue isn't directly used for the agency it was generated through, it will be wasted by the governing body of that particular town, city and state. Remember that most income collected by the state goes to fuel the social services and THEN pay salaries for political hacks, teachers and fire and police staff. That creates a shortage of enforement officers on the road, and with that shortage of police visibility, laws are ignored because what are the odds that there is a state trooper of police officer traveling the same road as you on any given day? SO.....with laws being made moot, people spped, drive wrecklessly, drive impaired, drive distracted and law-abiding operaters are now targets!

I can't tell how many times I was in the passing lane, passing at 70 mph in a 60 mph zone only to have multliple a-holes race up behind me and around me doing 90 mph just to get to wherever they are going! I'm sorry, but if I am playing by the rules, and you think I'm not going fast enough, you can just kiss my rear end.....LITERALLY!

Again, I cannot tell how many times some a-hole with a fast car comes facing down the highway, cutting off pretty much everyone in his way, only to get somewhere as fast as possible.

What we need is more strickly enforced EXISTING driving laws, and stiffer fines and penalties to go with them. With the lack of sufficient law enforcement visibility on the roads and highways, all the courts have is "He said, she said" heresay evidence, and the guilty offender ends up with a proverbial "slap on the wrist" for a major speeding infraction or maybe a motor vehicle homicide.

If you did half of the crap our "race driver" idiots do in ME or NH. you'd be facing felony driving charges, yet here in MA you get a warning or no charges at all!