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Old 03-22-2008, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by terry251 View Post
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I just don't think a private company should profit by using tax payer supported law enforcement to enrich themselves. If the technology and results are effective as purported - government should purchase and operate it themselves. The reason they don't...because they collect a fee without expending any resources.

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Actually I don't understand why the local government should benefit from collecting the fines. I have not gotten a ticket in a while, but someone in my office got one recently and there was all kinds of line item amounts for categories of money collected for different reasons. I think it included the fire department and some fund for buying personal computers for something or other. Maybe the local governments should not benefit at all from traffic fines, the money could be used to pay down the national debt or something.

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