Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Personalize Plates

[BRIGANDBAR (BRIGANDBAR]

I have to admit to some surprise that, given the extended discussion of  
greed and societal and governmental mores and their limitless appetite to  
deprive 
us of our right to decide how our pittance of economic sovereignty is  
distributed, that no one identified the source of the "Personalized License  
Plate", 
another opportunity for the state to play on our egos to serve its greed  for 
our financial resources.
 
Think, for a moment, why license plates even exist. They began as a means  
for the state to enforce a tax placed upon automobiles by allowing law  
enforcement officers to readily determine if a tax had been paid on the  
ownership of 
an automobile. First, it was simply a system of number to  sequentially 
identify, generally by state governments, those who had, and had  not paid 
their 
penance for the ownership of a particular vehicle. When  automobile ownership 
expanded they simply ran out of a manageable numbering  system and integrated 
alpha characters into the system to exponentially increase  the number of 
"registration" plates without expanding the number of characters  contained on 
each 
license plate. And if this seems to explain why California  decided to go to 7 
characters instead of 6 perhaps we are advancing along the  learning curve.
 
When a certain level of resistance was reached the ever-inventive  
dispossessors of our assets, ever vested with ingenuity when it comes to 
raising  money 
but not when it comes to spending it wisely and in the best interests of  
their Darwinian, rather than their counter-Darwinian constituency, decided to  
allow us to voluntarily subject the automobile owners whose egos equaled their  
assets to subject themselves to an even greater penance for affluence in the  
form of a "Vanity" or "Personalized" license plate. When one's ego is not  
satiated by simply going to a vendor to purchase an individual display plate 
for  
one's automobile the state will gladly, for a fee of course, allow you (within 
 limits) to acquire from them an official license plate that expresses 
whatever  you wish (again within limits) to express to others who may or may 
not  
understand what you mean by the "logo" that you have placed upon your official  
evidence of payment of taxes and fees.
 
Personally, if I want a individualized plate for the front of my car, I'll  
have one made by a private enterprise vendor and place it on the front of  
whichever of my cars I wish to at any given moment. The RR Silver Cloud III has 
 a 
British license plate (simulated, of course) on the front, a few of the cars  
have graphic representations of aircraft I have flown, etc. Actually, the  
Ferrari has nothing up front as I think it interferes with the lines of the car 
 
itself. No additional tribute, in the form of expensive additional fees, paid 
to  the People's Socialist Republic of Kentucky as the tax me quite enough 
for the  simple privilege of owning said automobile (and others) on an annual 
basis  already.
 
Why not just buy a plate with whatever expression of mood or attitude that  
you wish to express from a vendor and place it on your car? When you want to  
change it, you simply change it, without governmental interference or  
acquiescence, and as often as you might choose to do so. It is also  
interchangeable, 
as well as transferable without fee.  The simple act of  doing so would 
constitute a protest against the kind of government that gives us  ridiculously 
low 
speed limits, requires us to wear seatbelts while driving  automobiles but not 
helmets when riding motorcycles and innumerable enigmatic  laws and 
regulations pertaining to the operation of the automobile on the  highway.
 
Dr. Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL                 1982 RR  Corniche
1988 Rolls Royce Silver  Spur         1994 F-350 Powerstroke  4x4          
1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder                 2004 Excursion
+ Audrey's 3x MB's

Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies

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