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> do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid I wish I could easily donate my tiny settlements to a good cause. It m
by nyokodo 1y ago
> do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid
I wish I could easily donate my tiny settlements to a good cause. It might make it worth the time to register for the class.
- Covzire 1y agoI'd donate a bit to make this a reality if someone had a chance at pulling such a service off.
- Avicebron 1y agoProbably impossible, but create a slush fund where companies that behave badly are forced to pay into so we can do things like fix roads and build housing.
- idiotsecant 1y agoWow I think you just launched a political party I would vote for
- hx8 1y agoFine companies to fund bridges.
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- gruez 1y agoThat sounds like a great slogan, but you really don't want a justice system that's has an additional mandate to collect revenue. It's basically civil forfeiture all over again
- idiotsecant 1y agoIsn't that...taxation? Seems alright to me!
- tylerflick 1y agoWe shall call it the Turtle Party, inspired by the Turtle Religion. Turtles all the way down.
- glial 1y ago> companies that behave badly are forced to pay Isn't this just regulation?
- brewdad 1y agoIt’s a form of regulation. We could also put the sysadmin and the CIO to death every time there is a data breach but we, as a society, have decided that is too extreme. We could also choose to simply wag our fingers and hope the shame they feel will prevent a repeat. Fines seem to strike a balance.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoHN Invents Taxes And Fines
- recursivegirth 1y agoSo what we are really saying is that we should form a new government?
- asdffdasy 1y agoliberal tax and fines
- mulmen 1y agoThe idea of fines as a revenue stream has never sat well with me. Fines are meant to be a disincentive. The ideal collection amount is zero. Treating them as a revenue stream creates a perverse incentive to enforce the penalty without disincentivizing the behavior.
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- tutorialmanager 1y agoJust like police departments use asset forfeiture to get money to buy their “toys” while innocent people lose their cash and cars because carrying cash is suspicious.
- anamexis 1y agoI think the problem is: 1. How else would you penalize businesses? 2. What else would you do with fines? If fines exist, it would seem foolish not to budget around that.
- watercolorblind 1y agoMaybe a uniform tax credit/refund for each citizen that is covered by that level of government. We the citizens can then decide if we fix the issue or continue to generate fines, but at least the budget isn't expecting revenue that could disappear (like the lack of traffic tickets during the beginning of COVID).
- j_w 1y agoGovernments should not operate fiscally like corporations. A financial institution will budget around fees because it's in their benefit for their customers to incur fees. A government should not budget around fines because they want the behavior which was fined to not occur at all.
- _heimdall 1y agoWe could also design some kind of electoral process for picking those in charge of defining the rules and creating yet more bodies to enforce it. Maybe this time we can come up with a better way to disincentivize corruption and bribery.
- gleenn 1y agoSo on the nose. We shouldn't have to wait for pennies from lawsuits to have good roads and adequate housing
- keybored 1y agoWe could instead randomly select representatives instead of using popularity contests where the candidates need money for advertisements in order to get popular, or to just even let people know that they exist.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition [1] But the real solution is getting rid of money.
- jonhohle 1y agoI think there’s already an amendment for that.
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