Bay Area Fastrak is evil. I need to look for another job even though I love this one. Somehow I missed a bill!? Which I am looking into, and they gave to DMV jacking my car reg up $504!!!
On a toll bill that is only $147. MotherFuckers.
I don’t sign up for auto pay because they withdraw when they want and err on the estimated most usage for next month, so if you skirting the edge of not having enough, and your partner transfer a couple hundred into the account for Food and supplies, you can’t safeguard that, not even in your savings! Hence I pay monthly, when the paper bill comes. Usually you see your outstanding invoices on the side when you login to pay. Why the F was it not there!? I would have payed it, why not send another notice via mail!? $8 to cross the bridge to the next community, to my job. There is no way to save money on the toll- low income, prepaying, local commute etc, you just have to bend over and take it. :(
#fuckFastrak #california #PovertyIsExpensive

“The lack of counsel at magistration fatally undermines the fairness of criminal proceedings in Travis County,” states the federal lawsuit. 

#AbolishPoliceAbolishPrisons #PovertyIsExpensive
#BipaertisanShreddedSafetyNet

https://www.texasobserver.org/travis-county-magistration-aclu/

In Travis County, a Fight over Bail Hearings Has Big Stakes for Criminal Defendants

Some arrestees in Austin lack legal representation at a stage that can determine their cases’ outcome. The ACLU wants to change that.

The Texas Observer

Opinion: I can’t afford to pay parking tickets, so my car got towed. It upended my life https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-31/car-towed-unpaid-parking-tickets-california-los-angeles

#povertyisexpensive: The toll on my mental #health has hit me hard. From Day 1, I couldn’t be there for my daughter when she was in the #hospital. I’m unable to make the #income I need to #support my #family. Now I face losing my car and am buried in even greater #debt.

#InstitutionalizedPoverty #BrokenTaillightPolicing #ShreddedSafetyNet #HowTheLawFailsWomen #FailingTransit #sprawlscape

Opinion: Can't find your car in Los Angeles? Maybe you got 'poverty towed' like me

As a widow and single mother in L.A., I knew I was just one disaster away from poverty. It's time to stop tows that target low-income Californians.

Los Angeles Times

Timely that this showed up in my feed today. #PovertyIsExpensive #SamVimesBootsTheory #Discworld

https://mastodon.scot/@IndyRichard/110779546059984583

This should be a #QuoteToot, by the way.

Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Terry Pratchett's quote from 1993 book, Men At Arms; Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness explaining why the rich spend less than the poor. Posted this quote as an image file as it too large otherwise. #Socialism #WealthInequality

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This is what it means when people say #PovertyIsExpensive.