Current Issues Robert Hauptman

摘要

Licensing Confusion We license (register) cars and other motor vehicles in order to enable the government to control and track potentially harmful devices. That jurisdictions and private individiduals (in the case of tag agents, in Oklahoma, for example) also earn large sums of money is ancillary. We do not license lawnmowers or chainsaws, since they do not result in devastating harm to others, hit and run encounters, and annual deaths: some 54,000 in 1973 and 32,000 in 2014. In the past, a quick glance at a license plate told a minimally knowledgeable person that it was issued in Wyoming in 1957 and the identifying number was 4543. The color scheme even at a great distance was enough to indicate the state. Today, there are so many diverse plates from so many diverse sources for so many preposterous reasons that even a person armed with the now defunct Official License Plate Book would be confused.