Outstanding warrants being arrested and no sex predators at Hurricane Irma shelters

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(09-07-2017, 02:49 PM)Au165 Wrote: ...you don't think your taxes are the thing paying for the shelter?

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/06/27/good-question-where-does-traffic-ticket-money-go/

Quote:Of the $145 fine, $75 of is a surcharge that goes to a state fund. Legislator use that money for things like education, domestic violence advocacy and conservation projects.


“There’s almost a list as long as your forearm of the things that are funded out of the surcharge,” he said.

There’s also a $3 fee that goes toward county law libraries. After that, the rest of the money in Hennepin County is split: 80 percent goes to the cities and 20 percent goes to the state’s general fund. In St. Paul, the split is two-thirds to the city and one-third to the state. In the Ramsey County cities outside of St. Paul, the city and state split it 50-50. In Chisago County, the money is also split 50-50 between the city and general fund. For all other counties, two-thirds goes to the city and one-third goes to the state.

Sure, partially, but tickets are a stupidly large generator of money each year ($60m in Minneapolis' county in 2013). Now do I agree with the system? No, I think it's predatory, basically another form of tax, and occasionally can skirt the line of plain theft. But until it changes, the fact is it does indeed pay for a lot of things, and it's illegal to not pay them.