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Originally posted by Bill Verburg
My feeling is the pain involved ought to be the same for everyone, similar to the way your speeding tickets are written in Sweden.

A $100 ticket is painful for $20k/ yr worker, but means nothing to the $1m/yr CEO

similarly a $20k tax bill is devastating to a $50k/yr worker, but nothing to the $100k exec.
I don't think it's possible to determine anyone's "pain" level reliably, particularly if we leave that determination up to the agency that's benefitting from the judgement.
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