Should Fines Be Proportional To Income?

<p>These are the two most important things to know about Finnish businessman Anders Wikl&ouml;f:</p> <ol> <li>He is quite rich</li> <li>He likes driving fast</li> </ol> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/0*Fp8tjvTeWQ9TKKDz.jpg" style="height:368px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alandsbanken.se/blog/anders-wiklof" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bank of &Aring;land</a></p> <p>Wikl&ouml;f is the sole owner of Wikl&ouml;f Holdings, a group with almost 700 employees, turnover of over &euro;400 million, and profit of &euro;12 million. This group deals in alcohol, hotels, banking, shipping, groceries, wholesaling, duty-free sales on boats between Sweden and Finland, and a host of other activities as niche as supplying military uniforms to Lebanon.</p> <p>Life, in short, is good.</p> <p>But in the past 10 years, Wikl&ouml;f has been fined &euro;280,000 for speeding. That&rsquo;s an astonishing amount of money for such a minor offense, and might leave you wondering if this elderly gent (he will turn 77 next month) is racking up tickets every day because he is struggling to read his speedometer.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@cailiansavage1/should-fines-be-proportional-to-income-3d9027d52155"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>