- – you will have noticed how much more money the state is extracting from your hide as punishment.

In order to fund the enforcement of this rigmarole, in a kind of chicken-or-the-egg feedback loop of serial predation.

The "egg" being what a single 2023 Ford Explorer Police Interceptor costs, that being just shy of $40,000.

The "chicken," of course, being you (and me) when we get "pulled over" – as the euphemism styles being implicitly threatened with murderous violence if we do not – and are issued the "ticket," which amounts to our helping to finance the equipment used to "pull us over."