Already have that in Texas. You pay a tax on the licence plates, and another
"fee" for the safety inspection. Oh, yea. Major taxes on fuel for things
that drive on the highway. They could just increase the license plate fee a
few $$ a year and be revenue neutral by discontinuing driver's license fees.
We could always replace that with a national ID card... oops, more
infringement. They really DO want to be able to stop you and say... "ze
paperz, pleaze".

Remember when they came up with that idea to permanently affix your SS
number on a permanent tooth when you get one? They keep coming up with the
ideas... good thing we have resisted such Hitler nonsense so far.

"Clams Canino" wrote in message
news:wr%Db.581659$Fm2.540702@attbi_s04...
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.