Posted on 01/29/2012 1:05:34 PM PST by Kaslin
If you're a licensed citizen, however, you'd be looking at at least a $400 traffic fine.
-PJ
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You dont need a drivers license to drive a car.
My license has been suspended, for various reasons for something like 20 years.
When I get pulled over and they ask me for my license, I start pretending to look for it all over my car. First emptying out my glove compartment and then searching under the car seats. I do this for as long as it takes. This always works, every time.
Driving with license revoked or suspended is the number one reason people come to our local jail. If that charge didn’t exist it would have a huge impact on prison staffing, DA staffing, public defender staffing, etc.
A license should be required to campaign for office; if elected, a separate license should be required to hold office.
You shouldn’t need a license to drive.
This video shows libertarian paradise where no one needs drivers license:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=53e_1327069989
I’m glad YOU don’t have problems asking permission from government to.exercise your RIGHTS. And driving, as with any other means of transportation, is a RIGHT. You have an absolute right to travel to anywhere you wish to go, presuming you can afford the bill (or just walk). There is ZERO legitimate reason for government to compel you to obtain its permission. Ever. Proving financial responsibility (insurance): fine. License: never.
Doesn't the license show up as being suspended when they do a license plate check? BTW: My county privatized the local county DMV and it is night and day better from the state employees who operated the DMV before. At least the new employees don't bite your head off if you ask a question.
Your point is...???
Imo, the insurer should issue the license. After all, your driving is at their risk. Under that regimen, a relationship would develop between the quality of the driver and his or her equipment, the degree of necessary validation, and the cost of coverage.
Ha! I said "...shouldnt need a license to drive", not "shouldn't require the ability/skills to drive".
Besides, left alone the roads police themselves, as shown in the video when the low skills driver in the Fiat/Lada gets sent to the pits by the Landcruiser/Lexus.
I agree - if you build your own roads and want to drive on them, knock yourself out. Let me know when you’ve hit 20 miles of highway and I’ll come take a drive on it.
My car is owned by my dad. So it is physically my car, just not a matter of record. When ever I get my license suspended, I moved to another state. Problem with me is that I am a goofy guy and every time I get stopped they think I am drunk or on drugs. So I get accused of DUI almost every time. I have learned to refuse to do the DUI gymnastics (sobriety test) because I cant balance on one foot. So whenever I get pulled over I keep repeating "I have inner ear problems."
The big problem is that 40,000 people are killed every year in automobile accidents in the US. Its almost like re-fighting the Vietnam war every year. At this level of death and destruction, you could save a lot of lives by outlawing driving altogether.
Driving is so destructive that we have to take a lot of rights of citizens away and put up with a lot of laws in order to mitigate this very dangerous activity. It could be argued that the automobile is the biggest enemy of our constitution because of the things our government must do to keep the carnage to acceptable levels.
You might say we have a choice. A semi-police state or the probable death of you or a loved one before their time.
It is quite a choice, really.
Arizona’s license is valid until 65, so the expiration varies from person to person. I hate the idea of getting one here in NC for that very reason.
Driver certification should be done by insurance companies. The state should bar only driving without a suitable certification.
The insurance folks know what it pertinent to public safety.
Even speed limits should be between the driver and the insurance company.
My sister lived for 9 years in Finland. Her Finnish DL will expire when she turns 65.
Yeah they’re a bunch of greenie-wienie gun-shy socialists, but this one thing they did right IMHO.
(That is, as the OP indicates, if you have to have a DL in the first place...)
I have a problem with all government “permits” to do legal things. AFAIC, you should only have to get a permit to do something that would otherwise be illegal...the way police have to get a warrant in order to perform a B&E.
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