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The problem with parking tickets as a tax is it isn't at all fair. If you mega corp CEO or even well paid startup techy, getting a parking ticket of a few hundred dollars isn't that big a deal. To someone on minimum wage it would be a significant part of their income.

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And that's economically efficient. Parking tickets are just a more expensive form of parking to people with enough money.

Except that if you actually want that then it's more efficient to just charge $40 for parking than issuing $200 tickets to a random 20% of cars.

Exactly. Parking spots should be auctioned off.

Do it like Finland - http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-...

Oh how I wish it was like that here! Unfortunately, those with the most money write the laws here.

That's for speeding though. Parking is flat rate in Finland as well.

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