04.06.07
Let’s Get Out of This Country
At least this state. Indiana is such a mixed-up backwash of a state, and it’s only getting worse. We’ve got these awesomely tacky “In God We Trust” license plates now. They are not the standard plate, but they are offered to drivers at no additional cost. The cost difference between them and the standard IN plate is coming out of the state Highway Fund. The Fund also supports things like road repair, the State Police, and so many other essential infrastructure requirements.
Since Indiana is just a hop, skip, and a jump from the Bible belt, I’d like to predict a few future outcomes:
- Your neighbors ask you why you didn’t get one of the new IGWT plates. It’s just another street corner to profess your devotion to Jay-sus, to prove the depth of you Pharisitical piety.
- Your local BMV tells you that this is the only standard plate. I’ve already had people in Evansville telling me the BMV is making this misrepresentation.
- We continue to raise property taxes to fund the missing bits of the Highway Fund while our infrastructure keeps on languishing and we lease more of it to unsupervised, voter-independent private firms for way less than it is worth.
- The ACLU sues Indiana for violation of the establishment clause and infringing the rights of certain Hoosiers. Despite this being a very reasonable position, it turns into a PR nightmare for them as the people of Indiana continue to contort their brains into some kind of pretzel.
- Joe has one more reason to look somewhere far, far away for a job - somewhere that isn’t telling him a little more each day that he’s not really welcome here.