Posted on 03/31/2010 10:28:28 AM PDT by Puppage
You’re forced to pay a tax every year on the same exact vehicle? Lucky you!!
Force the tax paying idiots to keep registering the same vehicle over and over and over and over and over....And hire hundreds of thousands of government employees, at tax payer expense, to process these registrations over and over and over and over....
In CT, we also pay a tax on the same car....EVERY year, for as long as we own it.
Oh, that in addition to the above?
wow...
My husband is a wonderful, but often forgetful man.
He let his car registration lapse - yes, he was wrong, but he wasn’t doing it intentionally, he’s just really bad at these things.
Branford cops got him on the way to work one snowy morning this winter when he was taking the less traveled back roads to work.
Anyway, the car got registered.
They have these in Silicon Valley too. It’s getting more and more like a police state every day.
I was just going post that picture ;-)
I love it SQL injection!!! Wonder if it worked.
SCMODS on steroids.
In other words, they save the data from their 24/7 fishing expedition in the hope that it will occasionally pay off later on.
Oh that's right, "there's no expectation of privacy" when you're in your car. Including where you've been for the last...couple of hours? day? week? month?
We already have these things in NY and have for some time. I find it very intrusive.
There is a great potential for abuse here. I live in a mandatory insurance state. I got a notice in the mail that said the insurance was about to run out so I started looking around for the best rate. I went with a policy from a different company than the one I was with before and paid the annual premium up front. (I actually had disposable income then)
When the first policy ran out the old company called up the RMV and had them pull the registration even though I was covered by the new policy.
I got stopped while driving home from work about a month later. The car was towed(Even though it was within sight of my house). The plates were confiscated and I had to lose a day of work so I could go to court over a clerical error.
Just think what would happen if someone that held a grudge got into the database of "bad" plates.
Yes... but in this case, having no plates would be better.
I believe they run the tags of any vehicle they feel like, now. This technology is just a matter of efficiency.
It would also seem that this technology is more 'random' than the police officer picking what plates to run.
It is, however, no different than the face recognition technology that is already in place, and legal, and also raises the same concerns.
Yeah, you are correct. The intent from the Government was much more sinister though:
The US imposed all sorts of wierd things for foreign products over domestic ones. The Corvette, for instance, was allowed to have foglights that operated without the headlights. Imports had to have the foglights operate only when the lights were on. The little things.
So yes, in an effort to block foreign trucks in the US, they increased the tariffs on foreign trucks. The seats were there to get around a loophole. But they are neat, and other countries enjoyed them.
Government has been doing their modern tricks for a long time now.
When A simple bill of sale would prove ownership just as well
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