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page A Georgia $peedingTICKETKILLER.COM Commentary By: James Jameson 9/5/2005
If the state of Georgia truly wanted to stop this madness of speeding going on in our state, they could easily do so. Instead, they don’t want to STOP it, they only want to control and manage it. Moreover, there is a reason for that. First, speeding could easily be stopped by mandatory sentencing guidelines enacted by the state legislature. For the first offense, the fine could be say $500, $1000 for the second and subsequent offenses, and perhaps even community service tacked on. Nobody wants to be forced to pick up trash. Thus if the state of Georgia really wanted to stop speeding, they could do so by cracking down on violators with much stiffer fines and trash detail. Driving 70 in a 55? That would be $1000 please. It would not take much of that being seen by the traveling public to retrain their minds to slow down. Speeding would come to a complete end! But then, so would something else. With the end of speeding would also come the end of a tremendous revenue stream that the cities, counties and the state of Georgia heavily rely on to fund a myriad of government agencies. From a business perspective, speeding tickets are an enormous revenue-generating product, and like any product, they are priced by the state accordingly. Look at it this way, if a company prices a product too high, many consumers will not buy it and the revenue stream dries up. If a state, county or city prices their traffic tickets too high, many motorists will stop breaking the law and the revenue stream dries up. Most people will bear a $125 ticket, so they drive faster than they should and they bury the pedal when they see the light turn yellow. Most drivers will not bear a $1000 ticket and trash detail so over time they would condition themselves to learn to drive the speed limit, to slow down when they see a yellow light, to yield the right of way. The state of Georgia, the cities and counties know this. Therefore, they price their ticket fines accordingly. As a result, the speeding madness continues and so does the revenue stream. In addition to the state mandated base fines for speeding are an array of “junk fees” that will be added to your base fine. The state calls them surcharges. It somewhat depends on what county and type of kourt you are tried in that determines which junk fees are added to your base fine. Here is a partial list. Under OCGA 15-21-73, BOTH of the following surcharges will be added to your base fine.
Under OCGA 15-21-131, the following surcharges will be added to your base fine.
Under OCGA 47-17-60 only one of the following four surcharges will be added to your basic fine payable to the POA (police officer annuity and benefit fund)
The
above surcharges will be added to ALL speeding tickets, and all
other moving violations. There are other additional state mandated
surcharges that apply to convictions involving drugs and DUI cases
as well. Additional funds you should be aware of:
THINK ABOUT IT! If the state of Georgia ever really decided to stop speeding, all the above funds would dry up. How would the counties fund their new jails and law libraries? How would they train their prosecutors? Who would be paying for indigent defense and teenage driving classes? Who would be buying all of these new computers for the counties that just passed technology funds? Who would be funding the probate judge’s retirement fund, the victim’s assistance fund, the police officers annuity fund? Do not be fooled, the state of Georgia does not want to end speeding, which would dry up the revenue for all of the above funds. The state of Georgia instead wants to control and manage it for the “tax” that it really is. Therefore, since the evidence is clear that the state of Georgia really has no true desire to stop this speeding madness, but instead control it as a TAX; I say fight back against this tax. $TOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY! Speeding is truly out of control in this state. Need evidence? (Click Here). This is a copy of a Georgia DOT speed survey done on Interstate 20 near the MARTA station on the West side. Out of a routine sampling of 300 cars whose speed was spot measured by a Georgia DOT engineer, 297 of them were breaking the law. That is 297 out of 300! This survey obtained through Georgia’s open records act, done in 1998 (seven years ago) clearly indicates there is a serious problem with speeding. The problem is the state of Georgia does not want to fix this speeding problem, the state of Georgia instead wants to manage it as a tax, a revenue source. If they fixed it, the revenue would dry up. Since the state of Georgia is obviously not sincere in stopping this speeding madness, I say fight back against this unfair tax.
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