NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/autos/27118

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: shoud there be two different licences
Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:46:51 GMT
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[e-mail] (Pete Peterson) writes:
>Do you know that the assholes in the Mass. Registry of Motor Vehicles now
>charge you more to renew your license if it includes a motorcycle
>endorsement?

I didn't, but it's not their fault (or at least not the fault of more
than one or two people there).  Rate setting is done by the
legislature -- who could be legitimately called tax-happy.  I'm
impressed by the fact that if you're transferring a license from out
of state you get to pay for all of the proficiency tests that you'd
have to take to get a new license even though you don't have to take
them all (that was $70 a few years back -- $35 for the license, $20
for the driving test, and $15 for the written -- and I imagine it's
more now).  That's a pretty good racket.

When I took my MA written test the guy up front said: "Don't forget to
put your name on it.  While the state of Massachusetts can use the
money that you'd pay to take another test, you don't want to have to
pay it."  (He also said, "Keep your eyes off of other people's tests.
This test is ridiculously easy anyway."  It made me think that not
everyone in the DMV is completely incompetant -- some of them at least
know that their tests are too easy.)

jim frost
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