Larry
Well, everything got a bottom line, and so is this...
That the prone to wandering is still thriving out there though is part of multi-million dollar industry that puts anyone behind the wheel, and everyone at risk. Well, so is the ticket industry...
Traffic Tickets Are Big Business
Traffic tickets are a multi-billion industry. They have virtually nothing to do with highway safety, but they have everything to do with money!
-Traffic tickets heavily fund most court systems. -Traffic tickets justify the existence of entire police agencies like state highway patrols. -Traffic tickets are often used to justify police department's budget requests. -Traffic tickets are used as an excuse to raise the insurance rates for otherwise safe drivers. -Traffic tickets virtually fund numerous local governments.
you can eat my bananaBen Kaufman Maybe the lion wants the monkey to go and buy a rifle so he can throw him in prison without charges! ;) Smart monkey goes to the supermarket and buys a banana... Based...
When you begin to grasp the full magnitude of the public and private interests that depend on ripping off motorists through traffic tickets, you begin to understand why this unethical system continues to expand every year.
No one knows how many traffic tickets are actually issued. Many local units of government deliberately hide this information so they don't have to split their traffic ticket revenue with the state. Not including parking tickets (another scam), we can estimate that somewhere between 25 and 50 million traffic tickets are issued each year. buttuming an average ticket cost of $150.00, the total up front profit from tickets ranges from 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars.
If just half of these tickets result in insurance surcharges (typically at least $300 over a period of three years), you can add another 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars in profit for insurance companies. This is why insurance companies "care" so much traffic "safety" programs and are willing to donate millions of dollars worth of radar and laser guns to the police. (Click here to read more about "free" laser gun programs.) For them, it's simple: more tickets equal more money!
