Going to cort over a ticket.. Whats the point?

[IoannI]

What I fail to understand is why some of you people go to court over a ticket, even when its a small fine. Just pay the ticket. Honestly what the point? Lets put it into perspective, you miss a day of work including a days worth of pay over a ticket of 40 dollars. Your loosing money that way. Now what if the judge does not rule in your favor. You loose a days pay + the money it costs for the ticket.

Honestly I don't like tickets just like the next guy, but heck I would just pay them.

[Alvito]

each ticket you receive will make your insurance increase. although you may lose a days work of money. you will lose a lot more in the long run.

thats why ppl fight their tickets.

[yao416]

each ticket you receive will make your insurance increase. although you may lose a days work of money. you will lose a lot more in the long run.

thats why ppl fight their tickets.

Oh,

How about parking tickets?

[65505201]

What I fail to understand is why some of you people go to court over a ticket, even when its a small fine. Just pay the ticket. Honestly what the point? Lets put it into perspective, you miss a day of work including a days worth of pay over a ticket of 40 dollars. Your loosing money that way. Now what if the judge does not rule in your favor. You loose a days pay + the money it costs for the ticket.

Honestly I don't like tickets just like the next guy, but heck I would just pay them.

Since the government is using tickets as a method of revenue generation, I don't see a problem with booking a court date and "getting your money's worth." You don't actually have to go, just tie up the system.

[IoannI]

each ticket you receive will make your insurance increase. although you may lose a days work of money. you will lose a lot more in the long run.

thats why ppl fight their tickets.

Not every ticket will make your insurance go up and if it goes up it might not be right away it could be after the second ticket you get. You may lose a days worth of money and you could win so your only out whatever wages you lost. Now look at it from the other side, you may lose a days worth of money and you have to pay the ticket.

[deep]

Since the government is using tickets as a method of revenue generation, I don't see a problem with booking a court date and "getting your money's worth." You don't actually have to go, just tie up the system.

Wonderful thinking. Do you think the government looks at the loss and says "Hey, let's issue fewer tickets", or "Shat, we need to raise taxes because we wasted $300,000 on 65505201's ridiculous court dates."

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[gilboman]

Wonderful thinking. Do you think the government looks at the loss and says "Hey, let's issue fewer tickets", or "Shat, we need to raise taxes because we wasted $300,000 on 65505201's ridiculous court dates."

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its not about making the government issue less tickets or what not. its just making them earn it by using up some resources.

and excellent point about raising taxes..if they are raising taxes anyways, i want to know that i'm getting my share of services from it instead of being a complacent sheeple and just paying

[deep]

its not about making the government issue less tickets...

Good, because you'd be an idiot if you thought that might be the result of such an action.

...its just making them earn it by using up some resources.

Wrong. A connection between A and B doesn't compute for the government. They see output, they demand input. There is no "earning" going on here.

...if they are raising taxes anyways, i want to know that i'm getting my share of services from it instead of being a complacent sheeple and just paying

Egads. If that's actually the way you think, then you are contributing to the massive bureaucracies that consume our tax dollars at every level of the government. You "getting your share", especially in the instance, is the dumbest, most wasteful thing I've ever heard of.

When you're in the right, fight. When you're making court dates over tickets with no intention of showing up just to "get your share" (share of WHAT, *?) and "tie up the system" (yay, let's pay more taxes!), feel free to take a long walk off a short dock.

[Andro]

What I fail to understand is why some of you people go to court over a ticket, even when its a small fine. Just pay the ticket. Honestly what the point? Lets put it into perspective, you miss a day of work including a days worth of pay over a ticket of 40 dollars. Your loosing money that way. Now what if the judge does not rule in your favor. You loose a days pay + the money it costs for the ticket.

Honestly I don't like tickets just like the next guy, but heck I would just pay them.

obviously you never been to court.......the question is: "why would you not go to court?"

[TenzoR]

because you are innocent until proven guilty

[KTAPriest]

because you are innocent until proven guilty

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!in USA yes but in Canada you must prove your innocence

[65505201]

When you're in the right, fight. When you're making court dates over tickets with no intention of showing up just to "get your share" (share of WHAT, *?) and "tie up the system" (yay, let's pay more taxes!), feel free to take a long walk off a short dock.

And what exactly is right? Is it right when the government intentionally sets the limits too low so that they can have blitzes whenever they want to generate more income? Take a look around, traffic flows just fine by breaking the law every day.

Holiday blitzes? Sure, tag the drunks and the guys going 50+ over. However, when you hear of the 1000+ tickets, I wonder how many of those were just doing 110-130 on the highway, which is so unsafe. Seatbelt blitzes? If they are dumb enough not to wear a seatbelt, let Darwinism take them out of the gene pool.

Calling me an ass and telling me to walk off a short dock is unnecessary. If you're fine with the government generating income in the name of safety, feel free to send in a cheque every time you go over the limit.

[65505201]

Wonderful thinking. Do you think the government looks at the loss and says "Hey, let's issue fewer tickets", or "Shat, we need to raise taxes because we wasted $300,000 on 65505201's ridiculous court dates."

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Raising taxes is akin to political suicide. If they're dumb enough to do so because people are tying up the system, they will get voted out.

[IoannI]

The reason why they want to raise taxes is because Canada is in a huge debt and instead of paying it off they debt they choose to do other things with the money.

[weales]

@ this thread.

What's the point? Pretty simple, if the ticket in dangers me on having my insurance raise you're ****ing right I'll fight it. Perhaps you should rename the thread "Going to court over a $20 parking ticket...What's the point?".

By all means, if you don't wish to fight it, your choice