tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34869425.post7214805727453980232..comments2008-02-27T08:31:53.213-05:00Lumenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02321926429131244931noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34869425.post-81555916579846008682008-02-27T08:31:00.000-05:002008-02-27T08:31:00.000-05:00I think this bill is an abomination. It's nanny state, anti-people pro-government legislation at it worst.<BR/><BR/>The Constitutution gives judges and juries discretion to fit the punishment to the facts of the case. Mandatory minimums just clog up our jails and cost taxpayers money for unnecessary incacerations.<BR/><BR/>A $2250 fine for a 1st offense DWI with no accident is so out of proportion to the offense I find it abominable. How is someone on minimum wage supposed to pay that? It's just going to result in more drivers becoming permanently suspended.<BR/><BR/>Why do you get a mandatory minimum if you get a vehicular manslaughter? Why not murder? Why not killing someone with a chain saw? Mandatory fines don't deter anyone from anything and all of this revenue just goes into the Literary Fund.<BR/><BR/>Also, this bill is just going to put money in more defense lawyers pockets like Delegate Albo. I'm sick and tired of his money making schemes.<BR/><BR/>This bill belongs in the trash heap of history.BHConservativenoreply@blogger.com