South Carolina and Florida...

[JUDE]

Oh yeah, duh.

 

Can I get one of those plates with this picture on it?

 

 

 

I didn't know you had a twin brother.

[Good Old Neon]

I didn't know you had a twin brother.

 

Really? But you sent me that photo last week. It was taken by one of our moms, in the temple, the one with the shiny spikey on top.

 

I'm worried about you bruffa.

[Guest Jules]

*sigh* please educate me on what principles our nation was founded on? Tell me about Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Jay, Monroe, etc... and how they strove to create a christian nation in the image of god.. I'm dying to hear these fallicious arguments one more time.

I was kidding John.

[bobbob1313]

yep...i hate blacks and love god/young boys. hooray!

 

Must make it especially awkward when you pretend to like all of those hip hop records so the kids will think you are cool.

[EL the Famous]

Must make it especially awkward when you pretend to like all of those hip hop records so the kids will think you are cool.

 

i like black entertainers...

[bobbob1313]

i like black entertainers...

[Doug C]

The fees on the plates raise a lot of $$, and if people are willing to spend that money, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

Because spreading personal messages is not the purpose of license plates. People can spend all of the money they want on bumperstickers or on airbrushed murals depicting the personal idea of utopia that they wish America was. If the government needs to whore itself out to raise money for charities, both real and imagined, then call me an expatriate. Or at least the name for a person that moves to a this vehicle is legally registered indicator only license plate state.

And thank you, The Eradicator.

[caliber66]

Because spreading personal messages is not the purpose of license plates. People can spend all of the money they want on bumperstickers or on airbrushed murals depicting the personal idea of utopia that they wish America was. If the government needs to whore itself out to raise money for charities, both real and imagined, then call me an expatriate. Or at least the name for a person that moves to a this vehicle is legally registered indicator only license plate state.

And thank you, The Eradicator.

So should I, someone who is not interested in paying a fee to display a personal affiliation on my license plate, be required to pay a higher registration fee in order to make up the shortfall that would be created by the removal of special interest plates? Granted, I'm speaking as a resident of Virginia, where the state keeps these special plate fees for the most part, and not Florida, so my situation is different. Still, I believe this is much ado about nothing. Is it really that important?

[Doug C]

So should I, someone who is not interested in paying a fee to display a personal affiliation on my license plate, be required to pay a higher registration fee in order to make up the shortfall that would be created by the removal of special interest plates? Granted, I'm speaking as a resident of Virginia, where the state keeps these special plate fees for the most part, and not Florida, so my situation is different. Still, I believe this is much ado about nothing. Is it really that important?

It isn't much ado about nothing. As in most things that are important, it is the principle that matters. Prior to the special plates, the state was still functioning. You wouldn't be paying to make up a shortfall. Specialty plates are another calculated way for the legislature to avoid funding things. Most of the plates don't support government programs anyway. Most support private charities at best and pet projects at worst. Again, it is the principle. License plates perform a necessary government function. They shouldn't do anything else.

[caliber66]

License plates perform a necessary government function. They shouldn't do anything else.

Clearly, many in state legislatures disagree with you. I don't have a problem with someone paying to have a plate that says "YA BOYEE" and I don't have a problem with someone marking their affiliation with the FOP or any other approved organization on their license plate.

 

And removing the plates would create a shortfall, because they make money, regardless of the source of the money before the plates were available. If someone buying a personalized plate saves me tax $$ or allows my tax rate to stay the same while the legislature funds other worthy projects, I remain fine with the program.

[ction]

I've never actually encountered a licence plate purist in the wild before. This is very exciting.

[JUDE]

it is the principle that matters.

 

not much difference between a specialty license plate and government mandated religion.

[Doug C]

Ha ha ha! That's funny. edit I am a principle purist. When the goverment gets in the business of allowing personal messages on government documents, then the documents cease to be government documents. It then opens the door for needless controversy. The best thing is to not allow them. That keeps the principle pure. It is easy to say, "Who gives a shit? It's a damned license plate and it raises some money." That attitude, on the surface, sounds sensible and benign but upon analysis, it is another corruption of a principle. Just because it raises some money isn't enough to justify ignoring the principle or causing unnecessary controversy. In short, it is a seemingly harmless, but incrementally harmful, step on the staircase to the floor of civic ignorance.

Damn. That sounds like quite a lofty way to make a point about license plates but that just proves my point. It isn't about license plates but about a civic principle.

[JUDE]

I'm actually in agreement look at Britain, first Henry VIII had OU812 on his carriage then they had the Church of England, coincidence, I think not.

[ction]

When the goverment gets in the business of allowing personal messages on government documents, then the documents cease to be government documents. It then opens the door for needless controversy. The best thing is to not allow them.

 

I'm with you on this. In fact, it you run across any small green pieces of paper with "In God We Trust" printed on them, please send them to me for proper disposal.

[Doug C]

Jude, just in case you missed it, see my above edit.

[Doug C]

I'm with you on this. In fact, it you run across any small green pieces of paper with "In God We Trust" printed on them, please send them to me for proper disposal.

I agree. That shouldn't be on there either. If someone thinks that the motto's existence justifies the license plates, then that evidences my 'incremental' point.

[austrya]

You probably wont let your kids say the Pledge of Allegiance either. Way to make them get beat up at school...

[Doug C]

ha ha! Nice one. I allowed my children to decide on their own regarding the Pledge. One chose to say it, one chose to stand quietly.

[EL the Famous]

i bet the one who chose to say it hates gays and blacks. or grew a third eye.

[Doug C]

i bet the one who chose to say it hates gays and blacks. or grew a third eye.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Close. She only hates 3-eyed gay black men.

[EL the Famous]

Ha ha ha ha ha! Close. She only hates 3-eyed gay black men.

 

well, she's REALLY going to be pissed off about the license plate they are trying to pass in vermont then.

[bleedorange]

Why allow a state to fund its unnecessary bloated budget by having its constituents voluntarily pay fees for license plates, when instead the state could just raise tax rates and force all people to pay?

[JUDE]

Why allow a state to fund its unnecessary bloated budget by having its constituents voluntarily pay fees for license plates, when instead the state could just raise tax rates and force all people to pay?

 

Are you from Minnesota?

[watch me fall]

I live in South Carolina, am not a bible beater (not that there's anything wrong with those who are), and I don't see the problem. I'm not paying for other people to have them, so let em have at it.

 

And just for shits and giggles, here's a list of plates available in SC. I didn't know half of these existed and I certainly didn't know we were first in golf.