Why are traffic tickets extremely expensive?

Traffic ticket prices are high for two reasons...

One, to get motorists to obey the laws or incur high fines.

Two, the greedy government uses traffic tickets for revenue (income).

I use the cruise control feature almost every day I drive.

My last ticket was for speeding, 50 mph in a 35mph zone, on October 10th, 1988.

It is one of the more costly ways to bring money to the local government.  They justify this because you did an Oopsie!  So you must be punished for your misdemeanor.  There is no better way I know of to effect you, than by dipping into your pocketbook.

One may notice that at the end of every year, they pump up the tickets, especially with DUI's.  This is their way to raise money for who-knows-what?  :D

Because bad consequences encourages other to focus on not breaking the law.  Traffic laws don't exist as a revenue source for the government, but to provide safety to all drivers.  If you decrease the fines, you will see more people breaking the traffic laws, creating more accidents and more injuries both to those with a drivers license, and to those who don't.

A lot of local policing agencies use violation fines to fund themselves. Do some research on how things were working in Ferguson, MO.

Because violators usually don't get caught. If you do something 100 times and get caught just once, and pay a fine of $250-$300, then you're paying just $2.50-$3 for each time you did it. That's less than what you think it should be.

Because a punishment is supposed to HURT.  It's very simple.

And the president can't do that.  Congress is there to make law, or the state legislature if it's state law (which most of it is).  Do that and you'd soon get overruled for exceeding your powers.  Executive orders are for emergencies.

And of course if you had an efficient Congress, you wouldn't need them.  For example, the British Parliament Is greased lightning when it wants to be and often is over anti-terrorism laws when all sides are in agreement that something needs to be done.  Passing a law like that in one day flat is not unusual.

But traffic law is not an emergency.  And the president has no power over it because it's a state matter, not a federal one.  LEARN how your country works (actually it's about time your current president did).

The point is to make violating the law sufficiently painful you don't violate the law.

Note: The President CAN'T change STATE law.

Interesting use of the English language.  My Dad was killed by a drunk driver.  That driver is still in prison after 8 years.  My Dad is still dead.

You are a fool.  You argument that you are NOT autistic just went down the tubes.

I suspect you can't qualify for a license.  What does dispecable mean?

If traffic tickets were that cheap... Then there would be little incentive for people to obey the law.

The point of making them so expensive is to help enforce that people do obey traffic laws.

It costs them a fortune

About $10 for parking on a handicap parking space