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Re: Image comments for Thanks a lot Victorians
Posted by: pulse
Date: 05/08/2020 07:01AM
(all numbers/years below are made up, just a description of structure)
It's all to do with penalty points. Let's imagine that 1 penalty point started at $5 in 1990. Over years of inflation, let's say they're now $14.62 per penalty point. More penalty points = more severe penalty.
So eg
Breaking the speed limit by 15-25km/h might be 20 penalty points, or a $292.40 fine
Littering might be 5 penalty points, or $73.10 fine.
If activity X attracts 400 penalty points, that's now a fine of $5,848, etc.
It's much the same way that government job wages are in weird ranges; it would've probably started out that mid level manager gets $10,000-15,000pa which was probably 20 * minimum wage or something.
After 30 years of inflation, the same "minimum wage units * X" is now $92,815 - 134,179 - etc.
Basically, because government.
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