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I wish legislators would spend their constituents' tax dollars and time in better ways than wasting time and spending money creating license plates bearing messages that could just as easily be accomplished through the application of a personalized license plate frame.
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Except that the goal isn't to spend tax dollars, it's to raise more money. Whichever side of the argument they decide to end up on, the result will be a lot of people paying money for a stupid license plate. Paying money to the government. It's the perfect plan. Here the government controls how your voice is heard, so as not to be discomforting to others, they raise revenue, and it makes the people who purchase it feel like they've really done something that means something.
I can't think of a more insidious and evil plan than government rationed speech.
Let's push for pro- and anti-terrorism license plates next, and then we could have pro- and anti-gay marriage plates, and pro- and anti-school prayer plates, and we could follow that with whatever bullshit, pandering, social message designed-to-distract-people-while-they-continue-to-get-fucked-by-the-upper-1%-plates are released.