I recently renewed my license plates, and to do so, one must have the vehicle’s emissions tested at a centralized facility contracted exclusively by the government (you can guess how I feel about centralization and exclusive franchises granted by the government, gentle reader). As the woman put the official sticker onto my windshield, she gave me the certificate I needed to take to the License Office to renew my plates. “Take this to the DMV,” she said.<\/p>\n
As I stood in line at the License Office, I heard that guy, the one who talks loudly on his cell phone while in a queue, say that he was in line at the DMV. He also called it, on a separate call, the License Bureau.<\/p>\n
Now I won’t split too many hairs about the fact that the License Fee Office is a franchised to a private company and is not an official bureau at all.<\/p>\n
However, I will point out that it’s not the DMV, Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s an offshoot of the Department of Revenue and only exists to take money. Missouri does have a Department of Transportation, but it deals with highways, not cars.<\/p>\n
These people call it the DMV because that’s what they call it on television<\/i>. Somewhere else’s bureaucracy again becomes the national buzzword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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