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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.popville.com/2024/11/bills-to-enforce-fake-tags-and-regulate-food-delivery-pass-committee/

However, unless they allow police to pull over vehicles with fake tags this will mostly be performative.[/quote]

This is entirely performative. All this legislation does is make it simpler for DPW to tow or boot cars with fake tags and raises the bar for towing all other vehicles. Vehicles still have to be parked on a public street and have to be spotted by a tow or boot crew - of which there are hardly any - in order to booted or towed. Scofflaw drivers can avoid even the slight risk of consequences by simply not parking for too long on any public street. Nothing will ever change until MPD policy is changed.[/quote]

Sure makes me feel like kind of a sucker for paying for tags and getting my car inspected.  I could just be driving around with paper tags and a headlight and taillight out.  Also, I must be quite the mark for paying for my EZpass, too.[/quote]

Just because some people don’t do the right thing doesn’t make you a sucker for obeying the law. [/quote]

PP said it makes them "feel" like a sucker, and as another law abiding citizen I agree with that feeling. Anger and resentment are building. When our government does not enforce the law for everyone, effectively the law no longer exists, even for those who continue to obey those laws, because the freedom the law intends to protect (here, safety on the roads) no longer exists.

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
-John Locke[/quote]

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