I saw in the paper recently that Finland had a new law that bases speeding fines on the offender's income. As a result, a speeder was fined something in excess of $200,000(converted to US funds)! That ought to put a crimp in his driving style. But what else does it do? Maybe they should have just declared open season on rich folks.

It sounds to me like the guy who can barely buy gas for his clunker, has a free ticket to speed. Imagine driving on highways crowded with high-speed clunkers!

I'm sure that Finland has very honest traffic cops, but I can almost hear some of them thinking, "Hmmmm. There goes a Mercedes-Benz. I wonder how much a ticket would cost him."

So where does the money go? Probably into the city coffers, or some such government fund. Large amounts of money like that tend to attract the attention of politicians, so only a percentage of it will actually go to the public good.

As much as I hate to defend rich people, it's an unfair law, and will likely cause trouble. I predict that it will be repealed soon. In the meantime, I have scratched Finland off my Europe list. I don't even want to be fined $35 under an unfair law.
Howard