tag, you’re it
The Florida Legislature recently approved another dozen license plates. That brings the sum total of all different styles of Florida plates to about 1,376,982. Ridiculous. I originally thought the idea silly, but it has gone beyond that to plain stupid. The license plate collectors will never catch up. One of them, Florida Pl8s, is on the lookout for plates that have been approved, but not yet made it to the streets. There are so many plates, that it is difficult, if not impossible to determine that any particular plate is even from Florida.
Perhaps I’m being too harsh. Because of the influx of new drivers each year, American Digest suggests a “Big-Ass Vanity Plates Program”: one loooong license plate with 250 numbers/letters on each one. Now that I think about it, we should actually have MORE plates. The state can require six plates on every car, that way the state (and some of those obscure causes) will get more of our hard-earned money. Even better, forget all about those small numbers on the plate, and identify cars simply by the combination of Florida tags they have. For instance, my license plate could be: Bucs, USF, Lightning, Florida Arts, Devil Rays and, uh…, oh what the hell, Wildflower, just cuz it’s got crazy colors. And you could get a clearer picture of other drivers on the road, such as the Toyota Prius with the Conserve Wildlife, Everglades, Protect Whales, Protect Dolphins, Protect Panthers, and Protect Reefs tags. Or the Ford F-150 with the Big Tires and the Agriculture, United we Stand, US Marine Corps, Fish Florida, Sons of Confederate Veterans tags. Whatever… I would gladly give up my Buccaneers plate for a return to one identifiable Florida tag.
Tags: diversity, law enforcement, state, tampa
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