[Carfreeliving] Finland pro-rates traffic fines...

[Brinkman, Cheryl]

Sweet.
 
 
 
 
 
This too seems to be part of Finnish egalitarianism; most Finns don't
boast or conspicuously consume (except perhaps when they buy fancy
cars). Finnish authorities know how much everyone earns, and they
pro-rate traffic fines depending on the wealth of the malefactor. Last
year, the 27-year-old heir to a local sausage fortune was fined 170,000
euros, about $204,000 at the time of the fine, for driving at 50 miles
an hour in a 25-mph zone in downtown Helsinki.
 
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0829-24.htm
<http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0829-24.htm> 
 

Cheryl Brinkman 
McKesson Corporation 
Sr. Product Manager 
Generic Rx 
415-983-7501 
415-732-2699 - fax 
cheryl.brinkman at mckesson.com <mailto:cheryl.brinkman at mckesson.com>  

 


 

 
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