Originally Posted by
racedo
So lets clog up the court system with thousands of people who will never pay fines. This achieves what exactly ? Well aside from peeing voters off.
With respect I think is a fatuous argument to say "don't have fines in place because people won't pay them, so let's not bother."
I don't think we've reached quite that degree of social anarchy just yet. To most people - the vast majority almost certainly - having a damaged credit rating is a serious problem and any such an unpaid fine will undoubtedly be registered there. An Attachment of Earnings order could also be applied to ones wages and, again. most people actually are in jobs - even now. Sure, there are some people who won't pay but you don't drop a sanction against law breaking just because of that fact.