NAC: Va Speeding Tax...

[Robert Myers]

At 01:15 PM 7/10/2007 -0400, Huw Powell wrote:

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> > Hear, hear!  Of course the insurance companies are likely to be funding the
> > thing ... that or the "consultants" which are brought in to implement the
> > program ... tacking on their fee to the basic penalties.
> >
> > What was it Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence?
> > "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
> > consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes
> > destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
> > abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
> > principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
> > most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
>
>Hehe, yeah, probably the most popular US law ever passed (well, second
>to repealing prohibition!) was lifting the 65 mph limit on rural
>interstates.


And...  The speed limit on rural interstates in VA is still 65.  If you run 
at 65 on I-81 in VA you will end up as a hood ornament on an 18 
wheeler.  If you run at 80 on the DC beltway people will be giving you a 
single digit salute for slowing them down.

Bob