A Usenet persona calling itself Scott en Aztl‡n
Well, that's an obvious logical fallacy. If speeding tickets were such a revenue hog, governments would spend as much money as is needed to put enforcement personnel on the road to maximize revenues, understanding that the initial investment in obtaining enforcement personnel would be quickly repaid and profits would soon begin to flow.
Moreover, if revenue is the primary driving force, then cities would take cops off residential patrol and crime enforcement and direct them to spend most of their time on the highways writing tickets.
They don't. Fact is that traffic enforcement, like all law enforcement, is not a big revenue generator, and in fact costs the taxpayers money. If what you suggest were true, police departments would be self-sustaining independent enterprises, like some universities, funded entirely by enforcement revenues. They aren't, you're wrong.
This "artificially low speed limits as a revenue generator" argument is silly and specious and is not based in even the smallest iota of fact. -- Regards, Scott Weiser
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