A traffic stop can cost a upto $2500, sometimes even more. This fine has a usually consists less than 20% of an actual "base" fee. About 80% of every traffic fee is compiled of charges completely unrelated to the initial incident, like police officer training, brain injury funds, funds for unrelated criminal trials. Traffic violations are now used for, and increased, when ever the federal or local government needs money. Traffic fees should not be a supplement income for the government. It should be a fund to make the roads safer, and undo the "damage" done by a person when they didn't stop at a stop sign. They are going toward funds and budgets that should be funded by taxes, not SOME of the drivers. We ask that traffic fines should only be for traffic uses and the "addons" be limited.
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