Ironically, you may not realize how accurate that is because the amount that will end up being paid is far far less after all the bribing and court cases and buying off/buttering up politicians and judges, etc.
It would be worth it for some government accountability group to track just how much the difference is between the fine levied and the amount paid. It's literally never the amount published so the people are assuaged.
> you may not realize how accurate that is because the amount that will end up being paid is far far less after all the bribing
Sources? (Actually curious if there is some published statistics)
Bureaucracy with all it's faults still has quite a lot of checks and balances that have to add up so I wonder how many appeal results are there that are not as interesting as the first fines reported
It would be worth it for some government accountability group to track just how much the difference is between the fine levied and the amount paid. It's literally never the amount published so the people are assuaged.