Cephus
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As the OP is talking about fines, not prison sentences, this is not a good example.
This is something I agree with.
Here in California a carpool or trafic light camera fine comes out to about a weeks pay for a minimum wage person. If a weeks pay is the standard of punishment for some, it should be about a weeks pay for all.
But they're not saying "we're charging a week's pay", they're saying "we're charging X". If that fine is levied against a person below the poverty line, where it's a year's pay, are you going to argue that everyone should pay a year's pay?
It's absurd.