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It's clear that this goes on the back of the honest purchasers but I can't agree with you about the punishments.
- Given the general costs of living and earnings and the general amount of fines for crimes (at least here in Europe) a fine of 2.000 Euro/Dollar is - although "only" as double as the price - a very hard punishment for an ordinary people.
- The bus analogy would perhaps work if there was only one case in this world that an honest people had benefitted from the fine. Quite the contrary, although they earn here quite a lot from not-paying people the fees for public transport in Berlin rise yearly and yearly and yearly. For the honest people it is very much the same if the fines were zero or 50 or 100 Euro, if all or only 90 per cent of travellers (that's the official estimation) pay, it doesn't improve his situation in no way.
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