Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. Across America, police are
Speaker 1: handing out one hundred and twelve thousand speeding tickets every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of tickets. I'm like, where are they
Speaker 1: find the time to shoot people? And those tickets aren't
Speaker 1: going away anytime soon because these fines aren't just to
Speaker 1: punish you. It turns out local governments need that money
Speaker 1: to keep the lights on. Traffic stops aren't always about
Speaker 1: safety or hunting contraband or crime. Some cities use traffic
Speaker 1: stops to raise money. The cities and counties that are
Speaker 1: trying to use these schemes trying to use these fines
Speaker 1: and fees to balance their budget are basically charging a
Speaker 1: backdoor tax to poor people. In the South, municipalities strapped
Speaker 1: for cash of in targeting the most vulnerable citizens or
Speaker 1: primarily black and living under the poverty line. In Missouri,
Speaker 1: some of these municipalities generate anywhere from twenty to forty
Speaker 1: percent of their total revenue by finding citizens. That's right,
Speaker 1: These cities are filling their budgets on the backs of
Speaker 1: poor people. Yeah. So the next time a cop asked,
Speaker 1: do you know why I pulled you over? You can
Speaker 1: be like, let me guess the mail wants a standing
Speaker 1: desk and getting fined it's bad enough, but then they
Speaker 1: tack on a bunch of extra fees, payment plan fees,
Speaker 1: collection fees. One county even has a fifty one dollar
Speaker 1: processing fee. So it costs you fifty one dollars to
Speaker 1: give me a thirty dollars ticket. How about you not
Speaker 1: giving me the ticket and you just saved yourself twenty
Speaker 1: one dollars. And let's say, and let's say you're like
Speaker 1: a lot of people and don't have all this money
Speaker 1: just laying around while in fourteen states, your ass might
Speaker 1: be going to jail. Yeah, you heard me right. Fourteen
Speaker 1: states will send you to jail for being poor. And
Speaker 1: if you want to know what states those are, it's
Speaker 1: probably the ones you're thinking of. And guess what, you
Speaker 1: could come out of jail owing even more because they
Speaker 1: actually charge you another fee for going to jail. Like
Speaker 1: that's so messed up. Wait wait, man, I'm in jail
Speaker 1: because I couldn't pay, and then you're charging me more
Speaker 1: for being in jail. You know I couldn't pay, That's
Speaker 1: why I was in the first place. But do you
Speaker 1: think I hit the lottery while I was in jail.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it doesn't have to be this way.
Speaker 1: A lot of other countries never find you more than
Speaker 1: you can afford. They find you based on your income.
Speaker 1: This makes it more fair since billionaires aren't paying the
Speaker 1: same fines as people who work at the dollar store.
Speaker 1: And if you're thinking that must lead to some expensive
Speaker 1: ass tickets, you'd be right. A man in Finland gone
Speaker 1: con speeding, and boy did he have to pay up.
Speaker 1: Listen to that. A finished millionaire got a fifty eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars fine for going sixty four miles per hour
Speaker 1: in a fifty zound. Well, that seems kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Here over in Finland, speeding tickets are based on your income.
Speaker 1: The highest ticket so far was one hundred and three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, a ticket given to a Nokia executive who
Speaker 1: made roughly fourteen million that year. I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: I tell you what we did that here that will
Speaker 1: make me start putting those quarters in the parking meeting. Look,
Speaker 1: if the ticket is meant to punish you, it should
Speaker 1: feel like a punishment. Thirty dollars for a rich person
Speaker 1: is not a punishment. Rich people don't even know money
Speaker 1: goes that low. If you ask death Baso for thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: he'll be like, do I just ripple corner off of
Speaker 1: this one hundred dollars bill? So long story, short, stop
Speaker 1: using four people as your little take apenniesar, especially over
Speaker 1: a small ship. If anything, we should be doing the opposite.
Speaker 1: I propose every highway should have a broke lane. Do
Speaker 1: what you want, do what you want to do in
Speaker 1: the broke lane, but the tail of light, expired registration,
Speaker 1: dangling muffle hook cas you get hall ass into broke
Speaker 1: lane because you gotta get from your second job to
Speaker 1: your third job. I don't care, do whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: But if you get caught into broke lane talking about well,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to my squash game at the
Speaker 1: country club, then the officer can say, whoa, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to chase you. And then Electricity has a fifty
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