Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26493

  There's a conversion mistake there. 116000 euros is about 161000 US dollars,
not 103600.

  I suppose the idea of income-based fines is that the fine should be a
real punishment. If someone earns 1 million euros per year, a fine of
200 euros will be pocket money. Such rich people probably spend that
amount of money in one single restaurant evening. However, if someone
earns 10000 euros per year, 200 euros will be quite a lot.

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