What is Automobile Registration For?
AUTOMOBILE REGISTORTION
What is automobile registration for? Under the Constitution the only possible reason is to keep a public record to prove ownership.
So why do they send me a new demand every year? Are they so incompetent as to lose it every year? What is so hard about keeping a record of ownership on a piece of paper in a file drawer? Do they lose the file cabinet? Do they lose the whole Department of Motor Vehicles? Every year?
Does it cost hundreds of dollars to keep a piece of paper in a file cabinet indefinitely? Why do they have to bill you every year? What does it cost to keep the form in the file cabinet every year and not remove it? Fifty cents? One dollar? If ownership transfers don’t they think the new owner will let them know when ownership transfers? How about the previous owner? Are they afraid we will keep secrets from them?
Exactly what is automobile registration about? Highways are paid for through gasoline taxes as they should be. If they are not, then raise the rate 1/10 of a percent. The more someone uses the public highways the more they pay by buying more gas. They automatically pay their usage of the roads. There aren’t enough electric cars around yet to affect that system. When there are then a surcharge on batteries or recharging will take care of that problem.
So it can’t be legitimate to add fees onto the registration.
Registration fees aren’t fees. They are not taxes. They are extortion. They are property theft.