Front License Plate

[Russ Dickey]

Originally Posted by 4RE KLR

There was a clip on the news the other night that said the police would start enforcing the no front plate laws and that it would bring in approximately $3,000,000 in revenue for the state per year.

Just a quick follow up to prove the point from my last post. According to a news report I just found, Texas has more than 20 million registered vehicles, up from 14.2 million in 2000. So that equates to about 725,000 new vehicles per year being registered in Texas.

Now do you think that the cost of materials & labor needed to produce the plate, not to mention your yearly renewal decals, all cost at least $2 per plate? Probably so.

So instead of trying to earn $3 million per year by wasting officers (and citizens) time through the enforcement of a ridiculous non-moving violation, they could have been saving at least $1.45 million per year by just not making front plates!

Now I realize there's a difference there of $1.55 million, but I firmly believe that if the law starts being enforced that rigorously, you'll have everybody in the state putting their front plates on in no time, and that revenue number will decline sharply after the first year of enforcement. All states should just repeal these laws and save the money and resources for something worthwhile.