Your list of options is extremely incomplete. You can also
- Require accountability from the government
- Remove petty fines that serve no purpose except to raise money
- Remove the ability for fines to be used as a source of revenue.
- Ban civil forfeiture, which has exactly nothing to do with reducing crime
You're coming at this with an understanding that every law is just and serves a purpose. Consider yourself privileged for being able to grow up in a situation that afforded you such a privilege. If you were born poor and had no opportunity to lift yourself from poverty, $55 (especially a pointless and unjust $55) is substantive.
- Require accountability from the government - Remove petty fines that serve no purpose except to raise money - Remove the ability for fines to be used as a source of revenue. - Ban civil forfeiture, which has exactly nothing to do with reducing crime
You're coming at this with an understanding that every law is just and serves a purpose. Consider yourself privileged for being able to grow up in a situation that afforded you such a privilege. If you were born poor and had no opportunity to lift yourself from poverty, $55 (especially a pointless and unjust $55) is substantive.