• @JamesTBagg
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    26 hours ago

    But that’s ignoring certain aspects. If some blue collar fella had spent his free time and money fixing his dad’s old Camaro, a car dad bought for 4,000. Now it’s still well maintained, numbers matching, original paint, etc. now it’s worth 30,000, 40,000 maybe.
    Then we have some other c-suite exec in a Tesla of similar market value.

    Parking fines based on vehicle value is going to penalize one person much more than the other. Fines should be based on income or total net worth, not the value of a particular piece of property.

    That was difficult to type with sticky BBQ fingers.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s better than nothing. If you try and go for perfection, nothing will ever happen.

      In your scenario you could easily just have a process to appeal the appraisal, showing it only cost that amount. Rich people wouldn’t spend the time to do that, but these hypothetical poor people with fancy cars they repaired themselves would.