Plutocrat Kills Gandmother, Faces $2,500 Fine

From Forbes, October 30, 2013

Billionaire Jacqueline Mars Charged With Reckless Driving In Fatal Car Crash

[Seventy-four year old] billionaire Jacqueline Mars, heiress to a $20.5 billion candy fortune that makes her the third-richest person in the United States, was driving her 2004 Porche SUV when it crossed the center line on Route 50 in Aldie, VA on the afternoon of October 4th.  Her car struck a a 2013 Chrysler minivan carrying six women, killing 86-year old grandmother Irene Ellisor...[T]he pregnant driver of the van suffered critical injuries and lost an eight-month-old unborn baby in the crash.

Mars escaped the fatal car crash she was involved in without any life-threatening injuries. However, she won’t avoid criminal charges. This week, a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving was levied against Mars, which comes with it a punishment of no higher than a $2,500 fine and jail time no longer than 12 months...Mars allegedly told a witness that she had fallen asleep at the wheel. Full text of article.

Jagor’s comment:

I personally would recommend raising the fine to $20,000,000,000.00--twenty billion dollars. That's "Jacquie's" entire estimated net worth.

That twenty billion bucks could be used, for example, to provide cradle-to-grave heath care for every citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the rest of their lives. 

The punishment would be particularly appropriate because Mars, Inc, the 3^rd largest privately-owned company in America, makes most of its money peddling sugar-loaded junk foods in over 150 countries thereby destroying the health of tens or hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

But that makes far too much sense to actually occur, doesn't?  Talking away a social parasite plutocrat's ill-gotten gains as punishment for killing an innocent victim and an unborn child to use the money to heal the sick just isn't done, is it?