Cerno was flooding the zone on his Twitter earlier this week on - why are we pulling people over on the highways for "tags". This is just British-era Stamp Act stuff. Except that where tea was and is a luxury, hooptie cars are - for the working class - essential. McDonalds and Wal*Mart do not give the company-car to cashiers.
"Oh just take the bus". riiiight. Especially in this age of plague.
One side can agree that Wright deserved to be pulled over and put in cuffs, and another side can agree he did not deserve to have it done by an incompetent. Not even the issue here.
All this has rather been in the news even before the present mess, on account of coming electric-powered vehicles, which won't be paying petrol taxes on account they don't use petrol. People not named "Cernovich" ask the question: why shouldn't highways be funded by the people who use them?
Because the people who use the roads most are not the people who want to use them. Who the hell wants to drive into downtown Minneapolis these days.
The tag system is another hassle imposed upon on those least able to afford it. Roads are eminently fundable through business taxes.
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