San Francisco Eliminates $50 Million in Late Fees for Traffic Law Violators
The San Francisco Supreme Court has decided to eliminate $50 million in traffic fine late fees, according to a report by CBS News.
The decision was made primarily to “create more equity” (shocker). One San Francisco assembly member, Phil Tang, argued in an interview that the debt must be eliminated because lat fees were disproportionately impacting low-income families. The city’s decision to eliminate these fees also involves reducing citation late fees in the future from $300 to $100.
This is what California has come to: paying off the debt of people who broke the law. The state is now letting people off the hook for not paying the consequences of their actions. Before this was passed, only about one-third of people with traffic fines in San Francisco were issued a late fee for not paying their traffic fines on time. What do they expect will happen now?
California is a crime-ridden dystopia that tens of thousands of Americans are fleeing from. By not being tough on crime at all levels, even small citations, the state has created a culture of criminality. The city’s decision to pay off these violators’ fees will only give people more of an incentive to not pay their citations in the future.
Many of the problems that California is faced with are caused by the state’s leaders showing a refusal to hold people accountable for their actions. The argument that late fees are discriminatory because there are low-income individuals who can’t pay fines is ridiculous. Are we supposed to stop fining people who break the law because they can’t afford it? Breaking laws must be met with consequences. Refusing to uphold law and order creates an unsafe and unstable society. California is already the prime example of this, and it’s only going to get worse. I recommend that all Californians leave, just like I did.
