Virginia legislator introduces new speeding ticket tax that boosts penalties beyond $3550, driving business to his traffic law firm. Virginia motorists convicted of minor traffic violations will face a new, multi-year tax beginning July 1. Led by state Delegate David B. Albo (R-Springfield), lawmakers slipped a driver responsibility tax into a larger transportation funding bill signed by Governor Tim Kaine (D) in April.Wooo-hooo. The state gets gobs of new money, and the lawyers get gobs of new clients.
Albo, a senior partner in the Albo & Oblon, LLP traffic law firm, can expect to see a significant increase in business as motorists seek to protect their wallet from traffic tickets that come with assessments of up to $3000 in addition to an annual point tax that tops out at $700 a year for as long as the points remain.
"The purpose of the civil remedial fees imposed in this section is to generate revenue," the new law states. (Virginia Code 46.2-206.1)This was snuck in and pushed thru by a legislator who owns a law firm that now expects much more business. When you to stop to consider that most lawmakers in government everywhere are lawyers, then you realize that those legal scumbags have now hatched a plan that will get you coming and going - at least in virginia - so far.
Your state - no doubt - will soon follow.
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