The federal REAL ID program requiring every person in the United States to get a new driver’s license or risk being denied the ability to do simple things like board a plane is not only an anti-freedom program, it’s an unfunded mandate on the states which are being forced to pay the costs of implementing it.
Nevada’s DMV is howling over the expense, especially in light of other more pressing transportation needs. But rather than looking for a tax or fee hike to pay for it, maybe Nevada legislators should just follow the example of Maine and Montana and pass a law refusing to participate in the program.
Problem solved. Next…
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
Chuck,
Wouldn’t Gibbons, who passed this law his ownself when he was in Congress, veto any law that says “we aren’t going to follow this law” since he thought the bill was fine when he mandated it on us?
A good Republican President and Congress, the only Party that knows how to “protect us from terrorism”, passed this law and we should not have the termitdity to question their collective insight.