Talk:Civil Remedial Fees (Virginia)

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[edit] This is not a fee

The most correct word should be used to describe this scheme in the prose.

This is not a fee because there is no service being offered.

This is not a penalty because the penalty is directly associated with the citation. Furthermore, a penalty is designed to be a deterrent, and as the prose clearly states, any deterrent effect of this tax is only a "side-benefit."

Several news articles clearly show that legislative intent is to increase revenue. Even the AAA was on record supporting this tax because it would offset increases in other taxes[1].

This is a tax. Call it what it is. Don't use the legislature's whitewashed langauge.

Novasource (talk) 14:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)