So how about going with fines instead of taxes. Traffic offences penalties, should be charged as a percentage of annual income so that all people, including visitors, pay a penalty that reflects equal suffering and that is specifically being used to manipulate behaviour. Some really nice big fines for the rich and greedy. A lot of the current penalties represent a fairly large percentage of the minimum wage and using those percentages as a basis, people earning more than $100,000 per year will end up paying fines in the tens of thousands of dollars. So double benefit, taxation income shortfall fulfilled and the wealthy finally are being motivated to adhere to the law upon the same 'in reality' basis as the poor.
Actually, if I am not mistaken, Germany or some other northern European countries actually have had a system like that. I was reading somewhere about some rich guy getting a $20,000.00 speeding ticket because he had a multimillion dollar income. Not sure what the country is, though.
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