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On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:33:12 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/18/13, 6:31 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:35:30 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

But LEO use the tags. They know all about you before they pull you over
because they've run your tag. As a matter of fact, I got pulled over one
time because the cop was one number or letter off. I knew I didn't do
anything wrong, and when the cop came up to the car, said, "stand up", I
did so, and he handcuffed me!!! Seems as though the tag similar to mine
was a wanted felon, so it was a felony stop for him. He ran the tag
number again because I didn't fit the description, plus me telling him
I'm not a criminal, and let me go, of course.

It is typical that you start out with an assertion and then prove it
wrong.

You started with a guy involved in a hit and run accident properly
seeing and remembering a tag number of a car speeding away, then you
give an example of a cop who couldn't even get it right when he was
stopped behind you. ... and he is supposed to be a trained
professional doing his job calmly, not an untrained person who was
just in a car accident.

We all know the only purpose of license plates is to generate bucks for
the state, right, Greg?

Certainly in the states that tack on a huge excise tax every year.
It can be almost $600 a year in Indiana (one year old $42,000 car)

I already said, I think tags should be issued by insurance companies.
No insurance, no tag. That is far more relevant for most victims of
bad drivers than the tax stamp they have become. You would know
immediately which insurance company you should be calling and the cops
could more easily identify uninsured motorists.
The current DMV records are dreadfully inadequate for that. The
insurance company has no easy way to get the record updated when a
person drops or simply fails to pay their insurance. If it was
controlled by the insurance company, the tag would be made invalid in
the cops computer immediately.

I suspect we will all have transponders in our cars soon anyway and
the whole tag thing will be an anachronism. The cops will have the id
if every car and likely driver they get close to popping up on their
computer. They already have tag scanners that do that on the fender
but it is somewhat flawed by the artistic designs if the tags.

Here insurance proof is electronic. No insurance, no tag, don't even
have to show a paper copy. Insurance lapses, tag is deemed invalid, LEO
runs the tag, finds out that uninsured and therefore tag is invalid, go
to jail, car towed.