Yes, your additional option is to be extorted into paying a 25% fee.<p>Let&#x27;s do a root cause analysis of the problem, since it goes much deeper than mere small fines.<p>First, the leveraging of state fines, backed by government force, disproportionally affects the poor. The poor are damaged most, because they do not <i>have</i> the money to pay the fines.<p>Second, unable to pay their fines, many members of the poorest segment of the population are incarcerated for their inability to pay.<p>Third, this results in a system where those that are incarcerated for debt lose employment, and are driven deeper into poverty.<p>Finally, the most important part of this piece is that the state of Texas has set up a <i>massive</i> dragnet surveillance operation at the state level.<p>Their goal is not national security. It is domestic surveillance.<p>This technology should never be deployed on American soil, at this scale, and especially not for collecting debt.