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It should be proportional to the personal income of whoever committed the crime
Net worth, not income.
All net worth including stocks, property, etc.
Oh no. My collection or rare mighty beans.
Farmers getting a hard time on this policy
How would debt play into this? Would that be factored as a discount on the time served or increase it?
Farmers regularly drive around in multimillions worth of vehicles so they are definitely on that hook
Those sweet, sweet unrealised gains
And if a company is the perpetrator, it might just have to go out of business or be acquired by the government.
Similar to what I mentioned here, assuming that the punishment is a fine, what happens if that person simply gets their fine payed for by someone else? They could artificially lower their income, and pay their fine through a proxy.
Poor person commits crime: "Life in prison"
Rich person commits same crime: "One day in prison"
Excellent plan. Even worse than the current system. You're a genius.
That's inversely proportional
I have no idea how you managed to get that entirely backwards.