Vehicle registration and taxation is one of those things that made sense on a state level back when economies were more regional and auto travel wasn’t so ubiquitous. Now that both are no longer true, a patchwork system of 50+ different schemes makes it trivial to exploit loopholes.
This is one of those functions best handled at a national level and dispersed proportionally back to the states based on population relative to total registrations. It doesn’t have to mean the end of local or vanity plates (those could still persist with local DMVs functioning as federal tax collecting agents), but moving to a national or international scheme makes increasing sense.
This is one of those functions best handled at a national level and dispersed proportionally back to the states based on population relative to total registrations. It doesn’t have to mean the end of local or vanity plates (those could still persist with local DMVs functioning as federal tax collecting agents), but moving to a national or international scheme makes increasing sense.