Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Of course, America police are
Speaker 1: handing out a 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 going away anytime soon because these fines aren't just
Speaker 1: to punish you. It turns out local governments need that
Speaker 1: money to keep the lights on. Traffic stops aren't always
Speaker 1: about safety or hunting contraband or crime. Some cities use
Speaker 1: traffic stops to raise money. The cities and counties that
Speaker 1: are trying to use these schemes, trying to use these
Speaker 1: fines and fees to balance their budget are basically charging
Speaker 1: a backdoor tax to poor people. In the South, municipalities
Speaker 1: strapped for cash and targeting the most vulnerable citizens were
Speaker 1: primarily black and living under the poverty line. In Missouri,
Speaker 1: some of these municipalities generate anywhere from told revenue by
Speaker 1: finding citizens. That's right, These cities are filling their budgets
Speaker 1: on the backs of poor people. Yeah, so the next
Speaker 1: time a cop asked, do you know why I pulled
Speaker 1: you over? You can be like, let me guess the
Speaker 1: mail wants a standing desk and getting fined. It's bad enough,
Speaker 1: but then they tack on a bunch of extra fees, payment,
Speaker 1: planing fees, collection fees. One county even has a fifty
Speaker 1: one dollar processing fee. So it costs you fifty one
Speaker 1: dollars to give me a thirty dollar ticket. How about
Speaker 1: you not giving me the ticket and you just saved
Speaker 1: yourself twenty one dollars. And let's say, and let's say
Speaker 1: you're like a lot of people and don't have all
Speaker 1: this money just laying around while in fourteen states, your
Speaker 1: asks might be going to jail. Yeah, you heard me right.
Speaker 1: Fourteen states will send you to jail for being poor.
Speaker 1: And if you want to know what states those are
Speaker 1: is probably the ones you're thinking of. And guess what
Speaker 1: you could come out of jail. Oh and even more,
Speaker 1: because they actually charge you another fee for going to jail,
Speaker 1: Like that's so messed up. Wait, man, I'm in jail
Speaker 1: because I couldn't pay, and now 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. What 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: as 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 dollar fine for going sixty four miles per hour
Speaker 1: in a fifties own. 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 and three thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: a ticket given to a Nokia executive who made roughly
Speaker 1: fourteen million that year. I'll tell you what, I tell
Speaker 1: you what we did that here that will make me
Speaker 1: start putting those quarters in the parking meter. Look, if
Speaker 1: the ticket is meant to punish you, it should feel
Speaker 1: like a punishment. Thirty dollars for a rich person is
Speaker 1: not a punishment. Rich people don't even know money goes
Speaker 1: that low. If you ask death bas So for thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: He'll be like, uh, do I just ripple corner off
Speaker 1: for this hundred dollar bill? So long story, short, stop
Speaker 1: using for people as your little take a penny jar,
Speaker 1: especially over a small ship. If anything, we should be
Speaker 1: doing the opposite. I propose every highway should have a
Speaker 1: broke lane. Do what you want, do what you want
Speaker 1: to do in the broke lane, but the tail a light,
Speaker 1: expired registration, dangling muffle hook cas you get hall ass
Speaker 1: in the broke lane because you gotta get from your
Speaker 1: second job to your third job. I don't care, do whatever,
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes. But if you get caught in
Speaker 1: the broke lane talking about well, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: to my squash game at the country club, then the
Speaker 1: officer can say who I'm gonna have to chase you,
Speaker 1: and then electricity has a fifty one dollar process and feet.
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