April 29, 2009
States across
the country offer specialty license plates, ranging from the
innocuous ("End Breast Cancer") to the exceptionally vague
("Imagine") to the insufferable ("trees are cool") to the religious
("I Believe"). But is a license plate owned by the state, or is it
the plaything of the individual? A vanity plate, after all, writes
David Harsanyi, offers an official state-approved sheen. Should we
be able to use it to make statements regarding our political
beliefs?
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