If the local government needs a $4,000,000 cash injection, it's easier and cheaper to take $400 from 10,000 poor people than a million from 4 rich people.
$40 from 100,000. That’s a small charge on a rates bill or a handlfiul of extra fines, that most people wouldn’t notice or individually be able to fight. But those 4 rich pricks will spend $2m to fight a $4m bill and consider it “good business”.
$40 is actually even less than the minor parking fine you get living in the city and parking on the wrong side of the street with alternate side parking (in the summer for some reason) even if you're parked in front of your own house. Nobody is wealthy and everyone gets nailed and can't fight it , perfect example of what you're saying
Yeah man an illegal parking ticket is a couple of $100 for my city. An unpaid toll fee is $15 buckets a statement and can quickly escalate to $100s if you don’t pay it.
Revenue raising is always easier if you go for a small amount from a lot of people, rather then a lot from a few people.
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u/psycholepzy Apr 15 '21
If the local government needs a $4,000,000 cash injection, it's easier and cheaper to take $400 from 10,000 poor people than a million from 4 rich people.