I already made an argument a few weeks back on the same thing. The State
defining the SOP mode of transportation as a "priviledge" opens the door to
a whole lot of infringements to personal liberty. It probably looked
innocuous then, with very few cars being mostly a pain in the ass to horse
traffic. The true "slippery slope" effect again. hehe

That said, highway revenues need to be generated, preferably by those that
use the roads. I could easily see requiring cars to bear an annual "tax
paid" sticker, with the fine for the lack of said sticker being double the
tax.

Past that, there's nothing going on on the roads that the criminal code and
tort law was never equiped to handle. IMHO

-W

"Keith" wrote in message
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Maybe it's time we re-examined this "it's a priviledge, not a right" line.
I
guess when horses were the prevalent mode of transportation, driving an
auto
was a "priviledge" of the rich, who could afford them. Nowadays, how would
one survive without a car, at least in most parts of the U.S.? You'd get
killed trying to ride a bike to work in a lot of big cities, run over by
those "Priviledged" auto drivers. Driver's licenses are still just another
revenue generation tool, since obviously there are plenty of accidents by
all those "trained and approved" drivers.

It reminds me of those parents who get their kid something like a bike or
horse, just to have something to take away to punish them later.