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Oh look, another law where the punishment is a fixed fine.
His campaign had almost $3 million (and almost $200,000 in donations). $100,000 is nothing.
All this says is if you're rich, you can lie all you want. >

Fines are nothing but the price to commit a crime. And yes, the rich can afford to do so much crime. And do. >

Income Percentage fines should become standard, because if they are rich or poor, it'll fuck them over either way. But bet rich will heavily lobby against it as income percentage fine will force the rich to abide by the laws. >

This would still be unfair to working class people for the same reason that a flat tax is. >

Mate, the goal is if you commit a crime like park in a red zone without giving a fuck, for poor/middle class people that's gonna hurt your wallet and will not repeat, for rich it's a subscription and will repeat with flat fine. With income percentage, for every class it's going to hurt your wallet and you are not going to commit the crime again. That's the goal of tickets to not do something stupid. If you want to talk about cops that's a whole different story. >

Yeah. My statement stands. Say the fine is 5%. If you have $100 million, you lose $5 million. That's a lot of money, I'll grant you, but they still have $95 million. But if you're poor, and you only have $5000, your fine is $250, leaving you with $4750. That 5% is much more precious to the poorer person. This still isn't equitable. >

That's just a fixed fine using a fixed percentage instead of a fixed number.
The correct way would be to have a non-linear scaling of the percentage, so that higher earners pay more. If 5% to someone having $100 million isn't a deterrent, you make it a higher percentage.
It's literally the same way taxes are applied, except in both cases, for some reason, people don't want to tax the 0.1% ($3,212,486 and up, in 2020) at a much higher rate. There's no reason you can't fine someone making $5,000 only 5% but someone making $100 million 90%. >

Speeding tickets in much of Scandinavia are tied to a percentage of income.  Tickets have been known to exceed $100,000. >

I honestly don't understand how this guy hasn't been charged with fraud yet. >

He will be soon. In Brazil. >

I think someone on his campaign was impersonating McCarthy's chief of staff to get campaign donations so.... possibly in the US too >

Yes, he got paid 100k to impersonate him. >

Great, next include actual standards that candidates meet before running for office.  Like passing the citizenship test immigrants take or the civil service exam.  At least then we know they can read, write and name the 3 branches of government.  
Since I learned that those elected have access to classified documents without the incumbent background checks everyone else is required to pass...how about making that a requirement too before being seated.
If not then why the hell not.  
Standards set for them should be no different than standards others must meet before being hired or starting a practice like for physicians, attorneys, pilots, truck drivers, postal workers, teachers, engineers, etc. 
Standards set for incoming politicians before running for office and extended before they are seated should't be a pearl-clutching idea.
Are we an advanced society or are we glued to the year 1776? >

Well said. Its absurd that you can have well educated people in the professions you mentioned yet any idiot can become a lawmaker and literally govern and legislate what they can and cannot do. >

Part of the challenge is keeping those standards from creating a caste system/being used to keep rich white male landowners in power.
Still, 'must pass minimum classified material handling standards' shouldn't be too tough. >

Under this can we punish someone claiming they have normal sized hands when they don't? >

Depends on how well they know bird law >

Oh my God! Nobody look!! >

Did you see his hands? They’re beautiful. I think we should settle. >

I love that it’s named after him. That can be his legacy. >

Like Santorum. >

He fact that McCarthy supports him because of his one vote shows what a rotting piece of flesh McCarthy has become. >

I don’t even think Santos is his real name, so this is an ironically good name for the act >

I think of Santos L. Helper every time I see it >

Santos L. Halper >

Lol the Representative Lemon Law! Take him back to the dealership and get our money back for this clunker >

It's brilliant... make them defend his lies. >!The GOP will defend his lies to the end!< >

Impeachment is the tool that already exists for the purpose of handling this, but these cowards are infesting our elected offices. >

The house could just vote to expel him. And it should, but the GOP would never vote for it because it would set the precedent that you will be punished for egregious bad behavior. >

Can they pass an act to punish  candidates who lie about what they "stand for" and what they "promise" to the electorate? Pretty sure there's  a few Charlie Brown's getting tired of Lucy's  football shit. >

Nope. And here's why.
The entire concept of how this system was put together was that the electorate would hold the elected accountable. You run on a pro education platform and immediately turn around and cut education funding, well the people in your district can demand a recall vote on the grounds of dishonesty, everyone votes and just like that you get kicked to the curb.
The problem is that the electorate are the ones who are supposed to wield that power. The kinds of people that vote for Santos and his ilk don't see this as a violation of trust, they delight in how one of their own lied his way into office and now all the "libs" are up in arms about it. These people operate on a mindset where our outrage is the point.
As far as Santos's voters are concerned, they got exactly what they voted for. >

Santos actually wrote the SANTOS Act. What a guy >

Right above where you sign your name on a job application it says you will be immediately terminated if it’s discovered you lied on that application! Good grief! This is SHAMEFUL! Boot him out on his ass! >

Crazy that the party that impeached a President for lying about get a blowie in the oval office will let this slide. >

How long does it take the interns and staffers to come up with all these acronyms? >

Is this like a Lemon Law for Congress? >

What a legacy! >

I’m gonna apply to fly airplanes, since resumes don’t matter anymore….whooo! >

Jesus that’s so embarrassing >

My last name is santos I don’t want my name tarnished like this, there’s thousands of us!