Parking ticket 1793Indeed. Here's what the NCLC lawyers' guide to Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice has to say (sec. 14.4.3.7, 5th edition, 1996 (the law may have moved on a bit, but...
Parking ticket 1792R A parking ticket is a sort of criminal fine, not completely covered by bankruptcy. The bankruptcy discharges your civil liability for the...
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I don't know if I agree with you; I don't think that it's that clear-cut. Depends on the metro area. Take Holyoke, MA, where most of the poor lives right near the center of the city and take other forms of transportation than cars to work (not necessarily public), but at least a significant percentage of them do own cars; the rich live up the hill from the downtown, and it's doubtful they actually work in Holyoke. What about Albany, NY, where you can pick up a studio apartment for around $400 right by the capital buildings, and the rich actually live out in Loudonville and other surrounding areas mostly? Of course, with Boston and New York, you do have concentrations of the rich near the center. Still, I'm not convinced that the situation is as black and white as you make it, given modern, irrational transportation patterns (i.e. instead of simply commuting in and out of a central city, people head in all sorts of directions from their homes, wherever they may be). I wouldn't be surprised if there was a study out there that supports what you've said; it's just that such a study would provide more data than what you've offered to support the buttertion that a tax would fall more heavily on the rich.
