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Show ST. GEORGE www.thespectrum.com — The Spectrum NEIGHBORHOODS For the week of September 19, 2008 — 23 And now for a taxing problem: Drivers without insurance his week’s column was inspired by a heinous crime that everyone knows is so serious that it is investigated John Carter WhatIsawincourt were chance they were also poor. real people who seemed Having spent an entire to have twothingsincom- _ two evenings watching most part broke. mium every time they fill This got me pondering up, and the more you drive, the question: Does it make _ the more you pay! mon: First, many of the crimes they committed sense to fine people $400 for doing something theyd by the Federal Bureau of were either a result of or Investigation and is So. Utah influenced by drugs and/or punishable by 5 years in rae alcohol abuse. prison and a $250,000 fine. And secondly, there are a Additionally, this crime is you should know that I'm lot of tickets being written investigated by Interpol no expert in crime and that —_ fo, driving without insur— the international crimi- _ my experience with the ae nal police organization. justice system is limited to 0 f initie | Mi uaaifist The crime of which I'm watching the proceeds of ag : : drug and alcohol abuse — speaking, of course, is the a local courtroom for two a for iivat iinties | reall illegal making and distrib- _ nights. That being said, . ee hit b : “ Y uting of copyrighted movhere is what I found: ate being hit by.people ies. Of all the people that This is the very crime I met that are currently that got me thinking it involved in some sort of would be fun (or at least legal entanglement, thank interesting) to spend acougoodness none of them ple of evenings at the local _—_ were there for copyright courthouse to see just what _ infringement as I’m quite sort of crimes are going sure that none of them down in our community. could afford the $250,000 Now, before I continue fine. driving without insurance courtroom proceedings here is something else The state could then —_ take the money and put I learned — There are a rather not do, and in fact it into some type of insurlarge number of uninsured _ probably wouldn't do if ance superfund, and when motorists and none of they actually had $400 in anyone is involved in an them looked affluent. (By the first place? accident theyd be covered this I mean that none of That’s when I came up by the state insurance prothem looked like they were with the “John Carter” uni- ~— gram. hauling in the big bucks as__ versal insurance plan, here's Hold on asec... Did I, far as employment is conhow it works. John Carter, just suggest an cerned.) Everyone knows that additional tax on gasoline : : Everyone I spoke with to drive a car you have to and another large governoutside of the courtroom purchase gasoline atsome ment sponsored and run was aware of the fact that point. program? ——_qriving without insurance Everyone also knows Notice: If there is no a ironically, the only two in Utah is punishable by that when we buy gasoline — Ponderings column by times I've had a car hit it a $400 fine andthelossof | wearealsopayingalotof John Carter next week it is Was buy pomegue, who was _your driver's license, and taxes. probably the result of the driving while intoxicated, without exception the Why not add X cents per government hiring me to and, at the same time unpeople who were caught gallon to the cost of gasoimplement this new gas tax insured, while beinginthe _—driving without insurance _line to fund a statewide plan... country illegally, and judg- _ told me that they would insurance program? That Heaven help us if a leging by their appearanceI'd _love to have insurance, the —_ way everyone would be islator catches wind of this have to say there's a good problem is they are forthe paying an insurance preplan... The Seventh Annual Cedar City Sponsored by Braun Books Cedar Music Store * The Daily News Groovacious The Garden House: Iron Mission State Park The Wizz « Pura Vida- Albertson’s - mbes Grind the Randall Jones Theater 200 West University Blvd. i Fine Arts * Artisan Handicrafts * Food Booths ; _ Musicians and Performers All Day Long ‘Aarts COUNCIL te |