Bitter? Vengeful? Just?

So I recently got a ticket in Dakota County. I made a right turn on red at an intersection where a "no right turn on red" sign is pretty clearly posted. I don't deny in any way that I broke a traffic law here. Honestly, I don't blame the officer for pulling me over... he was doing his job.

Something the officer said bothered me, however. I can't remember it exactly, but he said something to the effect that he had no choice but to write me that ticket, that it was required as a result of his act of pulling me over for the violation. Really? So the choice has been taken away from the officer to decide whether the driver posed an imminent threat in the situation for which he/she was pulled over? Given the facts that there was no traffic coming from my left and the officer made a right turn on the same red light immediately behind me, I would think that more often than not an officer, given the discretion to decide whether or not this offense was worthy of a ticket, would choose to issue a verbal warning. Especially when the driver in question has no prior offenses in the last 8 years. But then, I may be a bit biased.

So now I have this ticket. I'm looking through the fines thinking I'll be out $40-50 bucks and find that the smallest moving violation on the fine portion of the sheet is $130!!! All for being in the intersection 10 seconds before I should have. To me this fine is far more onerous than the infraction for which it was levied.

So I'm seriously thinking about making it a personal goal to change my spending habits in such a way that I am able to deprive Dakota county of that $130. I may still have to pay the fine, but they will be no richer as a result of it if I can help it. I won't go into the argument of whether this county sees its traffic policing as a source of revenue more than a ensurance of public safety - I don't know enough about the system there to know which way that card falls. But I find the fine to be seriously out of proportion to the severity of the infraction, and as such I feel like I need to even the score.

Okay...

So, that being said, am I taking this too seriously? Yes, I understand that people get tickets every day, and for many it's a pretty run-of-the-mill occurrence. But as I mentioned, I have had no infractions in the last 8 years, and I drive 30-40k miles per year for work. Is this not a well enough established track record of good driving to justify my being angry at the indifference with which I was given this citation?