You're listening to Comedy Central. Of course, America police are handing out a hundred and twelve thousand speeding tickets every day. Yeah, that's a lot of tickets. I'm like, where are they find the time to shoot people? And those tickets aren't going going away anytime soon because these fines aren't just to punish you. It turns out local governments need that money to keep the lights on. Traffic stops aren't always about safety or hunting contraband or crime. Some cities use
traffic stops to raise money. The cities and counties that are trying to use these schemes, trying to use these fines and fees to balance their budget are basically charging a backdoor tax to poor people. In the South, municipalities strapped for cash and targeting the most vulnerable citizens were primarily black and living under the poverty line. In Missouri, some of these municipalities generate anywhere from told revenue by
finding citizens. That's right, These cities are filling their budgets on the backs of poor people. Yeah, so the next time a cop asked, do you know why I pulled you over? You can be like, let me guess the mail wants a standing desk and getting fined. It's bad enough, but then they tack on a bunch of extra fees, payment, planing fees, collection fees. One county even has a fifty one dollar processing fee. So it costs you fifty one
dollars to give me a thirty dollar ticket. How about you not giving me the ticket and you just saved yourself twenty one dollars. And let's say, and let's say you're like a lot of people and don't have all this money just laying around while in fourteen states, your asks might be going to jail. Yeah, you heard me right. Fourteen states will send you to jail for being poor. And if you want to know what states those are is probably the ones you're thinking of. And guess what
you could come out of jail. Oh and even more, because they actually charge you another fee for going to jail, Like that's so messed up. Wait, man, I'm in jail because I couldn't pay, and now you're charging me more for being in jail. You know I couldn't pay, That's why I was in the first place. What do you think I hit the lottery while I was in jail? But you know, what. It doesn't have to be this way. A lot of other countries never find you more than
you can afford. They find you based on your income. This makes it more fair since billionaires aren't paying the same fines as people who work at the dollar store. And if you're thinking that must lead to some expensive as tickets, you'd be right. A man in Finland gone con speeding, and boy did he have to pay up. Listen to that. A finished millionaire got a fifty eight thousand dollar fine for going sixty four miles per hour
in a fifties own. Well, that seems kind of crazy here over in Finland, speeding tickets are based on your income. The highest ticket so far was one and three thousand dollars, a ticket given to a Nokia executive who made roughly fourteen million that year. I'll tell you what, I tell you what we did that here that will make me start putting those quarters in the parking meter. Look, if the ticket is meant to punish you, it should feel like a punishment. Thirty dollars for a rich person is
not a punishment. Rich people don't even know money goes that low. If you ask death bas So for thirty dollars. He'll be like, uh, do I just ripple corner off for this hundred dollar bill? So long story, short, stop using for people as your little take a penny jar, especially over a small ship. If anything, we should be doing the opposite. I propose every highway should have a
broke lane. Do what you want, do what you want to do in the broke lane, but the tail a light, expired registration, dangling muffle hook cas you get hall ass in the broke lane because you gotta get from your second job to your third job. I don't care, do whatever,
do whatever it takes. But if you get caught in the broke lane talking about well, I'm trying to get to my squash game at the country club, then the officer can say who I'm gonna have to chase you, and then electricity has a fifty one dollar process and feet. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show wherever you get your podcast What's
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