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Texas Tribune tackles Driver Responsibility surcharge

Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune has a piece up this morning on proposed revisions to DPS rules surrounding the oxymoronically named "Driver Responsibility" surcharge. Here's how the article opens:The tales told by Texas drivers are eerily similar. A traffic ticket for a relatively minor infraction leads to fines of hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. They can?t afford to pay or, worse, don?t even know they?ve been fined. They lose their licenses, lose their insurance, lose their jobs. Some even land in jail. ?I missed one payment for $80 dollars ? and had my license suspended without my knowledge. I was then pulled over and now face even more surcharges and possible jail time.? ?This surcharge is ruining my credit and making it hard to pay all my bills...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).