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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:15:15 -0700, "Bill McKee"
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Why not require insurance? Seriously?

Every state does
http://personalinsure.about.com/cs/v...utominimum.htm

Most do not really have enough to deal with what the lawyers would
like but you have to have something.
BTW they have allowed lawyers to recover more from an insurance
company than the policy covers.

And so you fine the uninsured. They have no money to pay the fine.

In Md and in Florida they will take the tags when your insurance
company reports you for canceling your insurance. There is a fine
attached too. It is all on the computer now, you can't lie when you
renew.

Personally I think the insurance companies should be the ones issuing
the tags in the first place and do away with the DMV completely. The
cops would just be accessing a single national insurance company
database instead of 51 state (and DC) databases that don't really talk
that well together.

Here they just remove the tag from a car and stick it on theirs. I was
getting a new license plate for the trailer a couple years ago. Was cheaper
to get a new plate and tags then just the tags. Guy next to me was getting
replacement tags as his were swiped.