Posted On: July 13, 2009, 2:22 pm CDT

Posted By: Stat Guy

I like your approach; its about time someone really questioned the headlines. I agree that this is driven by MADD and its not about drunk driving but rather prohibition. Those chicken littles cause a lot of trouble and cost people their livlihoods. One thing that always bothered me is where does all that MONEY go? Taxes like these are always flowing and governments budget anticipated fine amounts! Talk about hoping and planning and expecting only the "best" numbes. It would be better if state governments didn't include fines and costs in their expected projections so they would actually have surpluses...but who are we kidding, governments spend more and always look for new sources of revenue other than taxes. Too bad that these statistics were skewed; we could make some progress if we identified the real problems but they don't make headlines or copy...