• Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Fines need to scale based on the wealth of the perpetrator. It should be an equal punishment for breaking the law.

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      2 months ago

      That sounds good in theory but that only hurts the middle class disproportionately. Not to mention it violates the constitution.

      • Makhno@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Not to mention it violates the constitution

        Almost as if relying entirely on an aged document written by the rich to set laws for the modern rich doesn’t work 🤔