Fake License Plates! (missing some of the point)
Fake License Plates (from Slate) Another classic middle-brow Slate article. It even manages to get some cheap digs in on Matthew Yglesias who used to write (badly) for Slate when it was really starting to lean hard into the online advice/meta-trash site that it has become. This one caught my eye though because the plague of expired tags, no plates, clearly non-updated out-of-state plates and so on is plainly visible here in my little corner in the US. I had long just chalked it up to people skirting the borderline astronomical registration fees the citizens of my particular burg are forced to cough up for the privilege of owning a 10 year old Hyundai but it turns out it's a national problem and not just a provincial one. The author here touches on all the topics du jour including police doing a silent strike, actual policies limiting traffic enforcement, and a couple other pointless digressions. But he misses the point - which he alm...