A friend came into my store yesterday having just come from traffic court where she was fined $340 for going 47 in a 50-to-25 transition zone. She’s a single mom, widow, no spring chick, raising two adopted kids who are in elementary school, by doing patient care for elderly people in their homes. She drives an older car. She’s one of the people who make Elbert County livable for elderly people.
A hat tip to the revenuing Elbert County Sheriffs and a complicit court system for another injustice. Did anyone else notice that the measure to repeal term limits for the Sheriff went down by a substantially bigger margin than all of the others?
Speeding, Parking Tickets on Rise as Government Revenue Source
Tuesday , February 10, 2009
By Joshua Rhett MillerDrivers across the country, beware — a heftier fine could be coming to a dashboard near you. Faced with rising deficits and dwindling revenues, many states and local municipalities are turning to increased traffic and parking fines to fill their coffers. [Read more…]