Auto Emissions Scam

I just took my truck and my wife’s car to get the government mandated emissions tests.  There was no technical need for the tests, the vehicles are both too new to possibly fail to meet emissions requirements.  However, the government requires that we waste our time with this idiocy to pacify the fascist environmentalists.

The emissions testing facility doesn’t accept credit cards or debit cards, only cash.  Except, they don’t take just any cash.  They don’t give change.  They demand exact change.  Great customer service, No?

Why should they bother with  customer service?  They are a privately-owned government-sponsored monopoly.  They charge $25 for two minutes work and they always have a line of people waiting to be fleeced.  And yet, with all of those customers, somehow they can’t make change.  Hmmm…

This isn’t an oddity.  This is the natural result of government coercion.  Their “customers” have no freedom of choice, so why should they bother to pay any attention to their customers desires?

Each American who is forced to participate in this fleecing loses not only $25, but also the time off work which is required to comply with this idiotic and useless bureaucratic bullying.

It’s a damned shame that we as a people have let our nation come to this, where we exist as slaves to our own government.