[Cowman]

Highway/Interstate speed limits and seat belt laws are a good example of this.

I seem to remember a great hew and cry about national speed limits in the 70's but people now have grown weary of fighting and have slumped into line with the directives.

Hannah Arendt would be proud

BTW has anyone else wondered why automobile registration's have to be renewed (and a fee paid) annually when I have the same car and the same plates?

[GourmetDan]

"BTW has anyone else wondered why automobile registration's have to be renewed (and a fee paid) annually when I have the same car and the same plates?"

It's a form of property tax more than anything.