All Posts Tagged With: "DMV"

Government Workers Are America’s New Elite

As a child, I would ask my mother on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day: “Why isn’t there a Children’s Day?” After she stopped laughing, Mom explained: “Every day is Children’s Day.” I didn’t understand the joke then, but now that I’m the father of three children, her answer makes perfect sense.
I recalled that exchange recently [...]

1Jul2008 | Steven Greenhut | 1 comment | Continued

Paving the Road to Serfdom

It’s the stuff of nightmares and science fiction: a society so depersonalized and regimented that survival depends on producing the correct credentials. Sometimes it’s a fingerprint or other biometric; more often it’s a document. Without that totem there’s no trading, no traveling, no transaction of any kind. A demand for “Papers, please” pesters people at [...]

1Nov2007 | Becky Akers | 0 comments | Continued

Privatize the DMV

John Semmens (jsemmens@cox.net) is a transportation policy analyst at the Laissez Faire Institute in Arizona.
For most Americans, driving is the most dangerous activity they undertake on a regular basis. We ought to try to make the roads as safe as is humanly possible. Unfortunately, government ownership of the roads and the vehicle-registration/driver-licensing process undermine safety. [...]

1Sep2006 | John Semmens | 0 comments | Continued