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   From: klunk@theothershoo.org   
      
   "Liberals are vermin"  wrote in message   
   news:0f3a8a9c-6847-4672-81d4-7060e395a9d4@28g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Oct 6, 9:06 am, Marc Bissonnette  wrote:   
   >> Snoogens Murphy  jumped out of the airlock.   
   >> These were their final words before their head exploded: news:255409c6-   
   >> f2a4-4f90-a260-29872d654...@l20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:   
   >>   
   >> > On Oct 5, 10:22 pm, Liberals are vermin  wrote:   
   >> >> Police facilitate the greatest tax grab known to man. Fines. It   
   >> > has   
   >> >> nothing to do with safety, it has to do with money. Without issuing   
   >> >> fines, police ranks would have to be cut by 30%, there would simply be   
   >> >> too little money to pay for them. Don't believe it? Ever see them put   
   >> >> in an electronic speed sign, see it work, slow down traffic, then they   
   >> >> take it away? You can't charge drivers who obey the speed limit.   
   >>   
   >> > Don't break the speed limit if you don't like getting fined.   
   >>   
   >> > Better they get their money from speeding fines than from taxing my   
   >> > income and property more.   
   >>   
   >> Exactly. And frankly, I am absolutely ***happy*** to pay a fine, rather   
   >> than go through a court process and have negative entries on my record   
   >> for   
   >> something I know darn well that I did, that I should not have in the   
   >> first   
   >> place.   
   >>   
   >   
   > The speeding fine is nothing.  A 140kph ticket on a 100kph highway   
   > will cost you about $500, but the insurance increase (for six years)   
   > will run you THOUSANDS more.  What I am saying is that if their goal   
   > is really to reduce speeds to increase safety, then there are better   
   > ways than the random issuing of speeding tickets.  In addition,   
   > someone speeding 120kph on a clear highway, on a dry road is far less   
   > dangerous than someone driving recklessly (weaving, etc) but the cops   
   > go after the speeders far more often because they know it is much   
   > easier to collect fines from them since they'll have a radar record of   
   > what they did.  It's not about safety, it is about money.   
      
   no, actually... it's about you whining like a child over being spanked for   
   something you know you did wrong... ;-)   
      
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