2007 Senate Bill 638 (Repeal driver responsibility fees )

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Introduced by Sen. John Gleason (D) on July 17, 2007, to repeal the “driver responsibility fees” or “bad driver fees” tacked on to various traffic violations and paid to the state, which were imposed as a revenue-raising measure in 2003. Reportedly only around 42 percent of the fees are actually collected, and they have imposed hardships on those unable to pay traffic offense fines as high as $2,000 over two years.
- Referred to the Senate Transportation Committee on July 17, 2007.

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1) Re: Homework assignment [by crazycajun on November 24, 2008]

by the way, you obviously haven't completed your homework assignment.

give up statism. it's not becoming to you.

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2) Re: Homework assignment [by crazycajun on November 24, 2008]

responsibility fees are just one part of the 'reasonable' controls on a right that we have yet to take control over. we keep forgetting that it was OUR taxes that built the roads, and the streets, and the cities that surround them. our money that pays the civil servants who enforce the laws.

it is OUR tax money that pays the people who write those laws. it's OUR vote that keeps them in office.

once again, if driving WERE a privelege, they wouldn't take such care in taking it away. they let people who SHOULDN'T drive keep their liscenses. this wouldn't happen if it WERE a privelege. i think that we need to put an ENUMERATION of that right into our next constitution.

they only keep calling it a privelege so we won't fight so hard when they take the right away.

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3) Re: Homework assignment [by TheOne on November 24, 2008]

That does not change the fact that it IS still a privilege. I know a lot of people myself who are in so deep with responsibility fees that they can't get out and it sucks, I agree, but until the law is lifted then we here in Michigan we have to deal with it. The bottom line is that if you don't break the law then you won't have a problem. Yes we do pay for the roads and the officers but that doens't mean that you can drive how you want and break any laws you want. If your responsibility fees are too much there is an alternative....file bankruptcy, then as soon as the points drop off and you pay your $125 reinstatement fee you will be good to go. As far as stolen land, as far as I can see that is your issue and not the issue at hand here.

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