Thread: $700 MILLION in overdue parking fines

New York City Cracks Down on Tickets Left Unpaid

By SAM ROBERTS
Published: December 3, 2010

Facing severe financial woes, New York is pursuing deadbeats who have long seemed to thumb their noses at the city with impunity, the hundreds of thousands of scofflaws who have accumulated a total of nearly $700 million in overdue parking fines.

A sizable share of the money owed New York City is on vehicles with out-of-state license plates.

In the world of the city’s parking wars, their defiance has been something of a longstanding joke: drivers with a stash of tickets stuffed in their glove compartments.

Payback time, the city says, has arrived.

Using a variety of bludgeons in its arsenal and enlisting collection agencies, the city is more assertively tracking down scofflaws to seize their cars or other assets. With a budget gap of $3.3 billion to close, city officials say every dollar owed New York matters.

“We have not taken anywhere near an aggressive enough posture to collect this money,â€

This is unequal treatment under the law, New York allows foreigners to openly break immigration laws, but Americans are held strictly accountable. It is racism against Americans.

Originally Posted by Bowman

This is unequal treatment under the law, New York allows foreigners to openly break immigration laws, but Americans are held strictly accountable. It is racism against Americans.

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