My County Won't Take my money! Help needed!

[Dequeant]

Pretty ironic, since technically you could be paying as much as double since copper pennies are actually worth 2 cents.

They should thank you for your charity!

 

[AdamT]

Pay with $1 bills. Oh, I suppose they'll say those have to be wrapped....

 

[Jordan]

I would take it to court. Not the unacceptance of your money but the traffic offense. By paying the ticket you are pleading guilty and thus cannot argue your innocence. Going to court will allow you have the possibility of keeping the offense off your record, but you'll probably still end up paying the fine. Be sure to set up a meeting with the prosecuting attorney and plea bargain down the offense to just the fine with no mark on your record. I have an attorney in Minnesota that deals with traffic offenses all the time and that's his recommendation. Once I find a link to his law office, I'm sure he'd be happy to give you the correct way to go about doing this.

Strauss, Jerry - Strauss & Goldberger
(612) 335-8877
250 2nd Ave S, #286, Minneapolis, MN 55401

He does a spot on a local sports talk radio program where he accepts calls and he ALWAYS tells people to set up a pre-trial meeting and try to plead down the ticket to keep it off your record. The main thing is to keep your record clean.

- ML

The infraction I got does not come with points. Its basically I give the government money for forgetting something at home, not for endangering anyone nor for speeding or breaking any law. I got pulled over to fill a quota and got a $115 ticket for not having my license.

At any rate, going to court on Monday is a possibility. In the end I'll owe the same amount of money and have to blow hours of my time.

I've still got a weekend in between so we'll see how it pans out.

 

[Knightskye]

Why do I think you were just trying to be an ass?

You'd be okay sitting there for an hour or two, sliding coins from left to right and counting them slowly?

 

[sevin]

Why do I think you were just trying to be an ass?

You'd be okay sitting there for an hour or two, sliding coins from left to right and counting them slowly?

This. Why are we wasting our time debating whether they should have to count out $115 in change? Why not just take it to the bank and get cash for it like any normal person would?

 

[Sandra]

This. Why are we wasting our time debating whether they should have to count out $115 in change? Why not just take it to the bank and get cash for it like any normal person would?

Methinks he was deliberately being an ass. Go Ron Paul?

 

[Michael Landon]

The infraction I got does not come with points. Its basically I give the government money for forgetting something at home, not for endangering anyone nor for speeding or breaking any law. I got pulled over to fill a quota and got a $115 ticket for not having my license.

At any rate, going to court on Monday is a possibility. In the end I'll owe the same amount of money and have to blow hours of my time.

I've still got a weekend in between so we'll see how it pans out.

Oh, well in that case, nevermind.

- ML

 

[Jordan]

Why do I think you were just trying to be an ass?

You'd be okay sitting there for an hour or two, sliding coins from left to right and counting them slowly?

Well if it costs my city $115.50 to look up my license information in their computers then they're going to earn every last dime of it.

This. Why are we wasting our time debating whether they should have to count out $115 in change? Why not just take it to the bank and get cash for it like any normal person would?

Because cash isn't protest. But thanks for the concern.

Methinks he was deliberately being an ass. Go Ron Paul?

Nothing that I was doing had anything to do with Ron Paul, I wasn't going in there to throw a Ron Paul fit.

I did this to protest paying $115.50 because the police officer had to look my information up. Apparently it costs the city $115.50 to pull my information off the computers. Thats ridiculous.

I did not endanger the public and possibly only hurt myself in the chance of a terrible accident. But we're libertarians right, if I am only hurting myself why should I pay someone else for it?

 

[JohnMeridith]

Look at all of the local gestapo sympathizers in this thread...sickening.

 

[forsmant]

Don't be an ass and give them some cash.

 

[steve005]

you're lucky they didn't arrest you

 

[t0rnado]

He's not being an 'ass'. The cop that stopped him and the government that is charging him $115.50 are the ones who are being annoying. This is a peaceful way of protesting a stupid law. $115.50 for forgetting your license is a joke.

you're lucky they didn't arrest you

The cops are lucky he didn't shoot them for stopping him.

 

[Knightskye]

Methinks he was deliberately being an ass. Go Ron Paul?

Amen.

Well if it costs my city $115.50 to look up my license information in their computers then they're going to earn every last dime of it.

In your original post, you said you got a traffic ticket.

What was the ticket for?

 

[Sandra]

Jordan, our movement doesn't take away your communities laws and your being required to live by them. It's meant to put reigns on the Federal government.

 

[PlzPeopleWakeUp]

nt

 

[lucynuts]

Keep the coins they'll be worth more than the paper dollars, last year I remember an article about the nickel being worth 6 cents, thats if it were melted down. Also there are many types of coins that you should keep like mercury dimes if you see them, they are made of silver previous to 1946 I believe the same is true for some quarters, just be careful.

I know its a great way to make a protest to pay in coins but seriously its the paper thats screwed not the coins.

 

[SirNim]

Jordan, our movement doesn't take away your communities laws and your being required to live by them. It's meant to put reigns on the Federal government.

This is a policy, not a law, which is equivalent to saying all municipal property taxes must be paid in $5 bills taped to $50 bills, no exceptions. The combination of a $5 bill Scotch-taped to a $50 bill does not derive legal tender status from the Scotch tape or from being in multiples of $55, it derives its legal tender from its constituent components. In fact, Scotch tape is entirely non-legal tender. As are paper coin rolls.

 

[BeFranklin]

Jordan, our movement doesn't take away your communities laws and your being required to live by them. It's meant to put reigns on the Federal government.

Repost since you ignored it the first time:

Since the governmnet is suppose to be the servant, I think asking yourself first is this how my servant is suppose to be acting is more relevant here.

You are personally responsible for how your servant acts.

 

[Sandra]

Repost since you ignored it the first time:

Since the governmnet is suppose to be the servant, I think asking yourself first is this how my servant is suppose to be acting is more relevant here.

You are personally responsible for how your servant acts.

Jordan says this is really because he shouldn't have to pay the traffic fine. He's going to make the workers at the Municipal office PAY for HIS traffic fine. He's coming off as an elitist. Others should pay, but he should not. Go Ron Paul!

 

[Scott38]

If you go to court before the case starts walk over to the county attorney and ask them for a power of attorney from the county he represents. If he can't (and he won't be able) produce it immediately ask the judge to dismiss the case in your favor as there is no one present who can legally represent the county.

Think about it? How can a corporation (county) sign a power of attorney?

You should save yourself some money and a mark on your record.