I can’t think of a reason for the extra hassle and expense.
Maybe so police can pull people over from out of county
That would assume things like lynchings still happen in Mississippi.
Yep, police out there are predatory as fuck. They know it’s low income and they’ll harass any poor soul they can.
If they didn’t spend all that money on different license plates for each county, they have to spend it on education and we all know that sure shit don’t want to do that.
Montana has number prefixes by county. Fun for plate spotting and intercounty ribbing. Though anyone can just get vanity plate if they wanted.
Don’t know if there’s much reason for it, but plates and registrations are administered by each county Treasury office.
My guess is plate assignment/registration was delegated to county offices from the start.
To make more work and be inefficient
Big government money wasting liberals
In Mississippi lol
I don’t understand this question at all.
The consensus seems to have fallen on vehicle license plates / registration tags / whatever they’re called wherever you might be, and it was also my first guess, even though I’m not from the US. That said, I do watch a few things on YouTube that might have primed me to think of those first and not any other kind of plate.
TL;DR: OP’s probably not talking about crockery.
I don’t understand what OP is asking either, even with the upvoted response to your comment. What do Mississippi license plates look like?
I live in a different state, and we have the option to have either our state’s motto on our plate, or the county that we live in. I chose the county that I live in. When I drive around, I see many others displaying the county that they live in as well. Is Mississippi’s system similar to this? I don’t understand why it would be a hassle on the part of the state to print different license plates for different people. They already do that anyway… I don’t get how that would be using excessive resources.
When I have to renew my vehicle registration, it is either done online, within kiosks at certain grocery stores, or at a government building within the county I live. It doesn’t seem like a confusing or weird system at all to me. But again, I don’t know how it works in Mississippi.
I’m British, but I’m genuinely interested in how “number plates” as we call them, work in different countries.
What’s a tag then? Cause I thought that was a license plate…
This is a number plate, just in case you’re interested.
Edit, just wanted to add….its yellow for the back, white for front, and you have to have both.
Instead of “number plate”, we call it either a “license plate” or just a “plate”. Some states require both front and rear plates, while others only require a single rear plate.
A “tag” is a small registration sticker that is updated/changed every so many years for proof that your vehicle registration is current. The “tag” is often placed on your license plate itself, but some states put the tag on the windshield instead. Some other states don’t actually have any tag stickers that need to be placed anywhere on your vehicle even though your vehicle still needs to be registered.
I think the confusion is arising because a user here is referring to their license plate as a “tag”. In my experience, this is not common word usage. I’ve never heard of anyone refer to a vehicle tag as anything other than the registration sticker. But just because it’s not common in the places I’ve been doesn’t mean that people don’t use the word that way.
The tag is the registration tag, it’s visible proof that the car is on register with the state(s) and is legal to be on the road
My WAG would be that they need more busywork for the prisoners.
My speculation is based on who hands them out.
- states I’m familiar with do not show county. Plates are handed out by a DMV/RMV, which is a state agency
- for those states that show county, are the plates handed out by a county level agency?
In GA, the state oversees vehicle registration but the counties actually do the tax collection/license plate issuance. For reference we have counties on our plates
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Meanwhile European license plates being standardized across the whole Union.
Your guys’ are prettier to look at, whilst ours are all about the intended function. Not sure which approach I like more.
Probably something to do with how poorly educated they are.
