Best and Worst U.S. License Plates

[formulanone]

In fact, the New Hampshire tax code is designed to disproportionately tax tourists. The 9% tax on your hotel room is higher than you'd pay in Massachusetts or Vermont.

Not to quibble here, but 9% hotel sales tax is about average, in my travels. I have to itemize my hotel bills for work, and there's some that also add in county/parish and possibly city taxes. I've seen around 12-15% for total "bed" taxes if they include a little more to fund something like a stadium or who-knows-what; it's rare in my experience to see something less than 10% of it go to taxes, in any state.

Another difference is that you cannot cover up "Pure Michigan" on your plate because it's the state identifier and SCOTUS said that you can't cover that up.

This is kind of bizarre to me. Plates serve essentially two functions: making sure you've paid your yearly vehicle usage bill, and to visually track your vehicle in case of wrong-doing. After the state/province name, serial number, and legibility and are accounted for, it shouldn't matter whether I should be required to praise something about my state or not. If we went back to the really simple and austere plates of antiquity, I would be satisfied.

[The Nature Boy]

In fact, the New Hampshire tax code is designed to disproportionately tax tourists. The 9% tax on your hotel room is higher than you'd pay in Massachusetts or Vermont.

Not to quibble here, but 9% hotel sales tax is about average, in my travels. I have to itemize my hotel bills for work, and there's some that also add in county/parish and possibly city taxes. I've seen around 12-15% for total "bed" taxes if they include a little more to fund something like a stadium or who-knows-what; it's rare in my experience to see something less than 10% of it go to taxes, in any state.

Another difference is that you cannot cover up "Pure Michigan" on your plate because it's the state identifier and SCOTUS said that you can't cover that up.

This is kind of bizarre to me. Plates serve essentially two functions: making sure you've paid your yearly vehicle usage bill, and to visually track your vehicle in case of wrong-doing. After the state/province name, serial number, and legibility and are accounted for, it shouldn't matter whether I should be required to praise something about my state or not. If we went back to the really simple and austere plates of antiquity, I would be satisfied.

I mean..........



You MIGHT be able to cover up the word "Pure" there. The opinion didn't specifically cover things like this, mainly because states hadn't started doing stupid stuff like this in the late 1970s. But since "Pure" is coupled with Michigan, there might be some problem.

[jbnv]

I mean..........



You MIGHT be able to cover up the word "Pure" there. The opinion didn't specifically cover things like this, mainly because states hadn't started doing stupid stuff like this in the late 1970s. But since "Pure" is coupled with Michigan, there might be some problem.

Maybe with Liquid Paper?

[The Nature Boy]

I mean..........



You MIGHT be able to cover up the word "Pure" there. The opinion didn't specifically cover things like this, mainly because states hadn't started doing stupid stuff like this in the late 1970s. But since "Pure" is coupled with Michigan, there might be some problem.

Maybe with Liquid Paper?

You might have better luck suing the Michigan DOT to force them to produce an alternative plate.