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(05-18-2013 11:59 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I have lived in four different states. Everyone of them had the requirement that you have to buy your tag in the county where you live. I don't think that rule qualifies as backwardness. It's like being required to pay income taxes in the country that you live in.

In fact, when I lived in Tennessee, specifically, Rutherford County, car tags were used to bust people who were cheating the system from neighboring counties to enroll their children in Rutherford County Schools, which were significantly better than those in surrounding counties. People would lie about where they lived by giving fake addresses at enrollment, but then drop off their kids with their out-of-county tags. When that happened, the school would investigate. When they cracked down at the start of a particular school year, about 250 kids were kicked out of Rutherford County Schools and their parents fined thousands of dollars by the county for out-of-district tuition for the years their kids had cheated the system.

It caused quite a stir. I thought it was fair. My higher taxes shouldn't subsidize some other kid's education because the parent is too cheap to live in a county with higher taxes, or pay the out-of-district fee to enroll them in the school.