This will suck if it happens.. Options

[TeK]

Story last updated at 12:58 a.m. Thursday, July 20, 2006

Driver's license fees could jump 300 percent with new law, official says
ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN (AP) - Texans applying for or renewing drivers' licenses could pay much higher fees and wait in longer lines once a federal law standardizing cost takes effect in 2008, a state lawmaker says.

Texas fees could jump to more than $100 from the current $24, a 300 percent increase, when the federal government begins requiring states to issue uniform drivers' licenses, what many consider a de facto national identification card, said state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte, D-San Antonio.

The change also would eliminate online and mail renewals and would require renewing motorists to produce Social Security cards and birth certificates in person at Department of Public Safety offices.

Van De Putte got briefed on the new state-issued, federally approved licenses because next month she will become president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Source:
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/07200...072006078.shtml

[pebkac]

we're all going to be laughing at this 40 years from now when we're all waiting in line to get the government mandated thought-monitoring chips implanted in our brains so that they can read our minds even .... we will all be ashamed at ourselves for scoffing at this idea ha ha ha!

Look on the bright side. At least the koolaid will be good.