If the government which screwed it up gets shut down:
As a government shutdown loomed, residents of Alabama’s most populous county lined up Friday to renew their car registrations and settle their tax bills.
By Monday, at least a quarter of the county’s 3,600 employees will be on unpaid leave and many county offices will be closed or cutting back hours.
The county, with 640,000 residents, has been on the brink of filing the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy for the past year due to a sewer bond fiasco that remains unresolved. Then things got worse: A judge ruled the county’s occupational tax is illegal and courts refused to let the county spend the revenue from it while officials appeal.
I know, I know – we’re all supposed to be worried about police and fire and I hope that someone over there is ensuring that the cops are able to show up for work…but in “renew their car registrations” we can see what is wrong with government: we have employees working to note that the car you owned last year is still owned by you. A perfect example of useless, make-work government. I agree in registering cars – but once I register it, it should be presumed to be in my possession until someone says otherwise.
I want us to have government after government shut down – and see how easily life goes without bureaucrats hovering over our every move.
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