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No Tickets For Us

It will be us schmoes who will pay. And pay, and pay, and PAY. A Catch 22 for the masses, but immunity for the ruling class

Pennsylvania Drivers:

Tell your Representative to vote NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 607: RADAR for municipal police.

“No Tickets For Us!”

Our Representatives and Senators will have immunity from RADAR tickets. But, they (or their chauffeurs) don’t drive the posted speed limits. They drive 85th Percentile Speeds like the rest of us. So they are “speeders,” like the rest of us.

They won’t pay. It will be us schmoes who will pay. And pay, and pay, and PAY. A Catch 22 for the masses, but immunity for the ruling class (oops, I mean the Legislature). It’s a scam, like the guaranteed raises the ruling class voted for themselves at midnight, years ago.

“It’s For Safety!” are the first words out of their mouths, but the last thing on their minds.

M-O-N-E-Y, OUR money, is what they are after. If it’s not the money, why not mandate posting the safest speeds? If it’s not the money, why not make tickets points only?

More to the point, there IS no “speeding” crisis.

Analysis of data from twenty-five states confirms exceeding the speed limit is not a significant cause of accidents. Out of 2.7 million traffic accidents recorded in twenty-five states over the course of a year, only 1.6 percent were caused by drivers who exceeded the posted speed limit. Zero need for predatory enforcement with RADAR.

Tell your Representative to vote NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 607.

Archimedes Member, National Motorists Association

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