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The social good of parking tickets involves the supply and demand of a constrained resource in dense urban areas. This is quite different than the deterrent aspects of a speeding ticket.

Tickets as a revenue mechanism is a social ill because it's usually a regressive tax in practice. Most people don't seem to have a problem with "luxury tax"-style revenue generation.

Do you have a negative view of "permanent toll roads" because it happens to be regressive since poor people often have to drive, even though it's a more usage-based tax?



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