Nailing Down the Solution

 

 

March 12, 2024

 

A major source of annoyance for many people in the St. Louis region is that car buyers will often drive with temporary tags long after the tags have expired. Not a big deal, except that that means that the car buyers haven’t paid taxes on their cars.

 

To the tax-paying citizens of the region, these scofflaws epitomize What’s Wrong with the World Today—no personal responsibility—and besides, We Had to Pay, So Why Don’t You?

 

Part of the problem is that, when drivers are zooming down the road, the paper temporary plates, unsecured at the bottom, flap around so that there’s no way to tell when they expired. So police can’t stop them for expired plates, because who can tell?

 

I bent my powerful mind to the problem and concluded that, if car sellers were required to affix the bottom of the temporary plates to the car, they wouldn’t flap around. Thus, more people would be ticketed and presumably pay those back taxes.

 

Shall we try it?