Seems similar to income level should have no bearing on the length of a prison sentence. And indeed, assuming all lawyers had the same level of competence, both the rich and the poor would serve the same punishment for the same crime.
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If we frame the fine punishment in terms of how financially uncomfortable it makes a person, then a proportional fine by some qualitative metric of financial comfort would be equitable.
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And since the goal is deterrence, the difference in punishment between income brackets would be more about how tolerant a person is to financial discomfort. Addressing this remaining inequity seems much blurrier since it’s so subjective.
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