How are you Americans doing car registration? As someone from another country it sounds a little bit crazy to not have a national car registry. Is this on the state level? And if someone from Texas is caught speeding in Arizona, police has to as there for the ID of the owner? Or is there no registry at all? And why shouldn’t states be able to collect a tax from their citizens?
Cars and drivers are registered on the state level, yes. There’s an agreement that licenses from every state are valid in every other state, and infractions in any state are prosecuted by the jurisdiction in which it happens. There is no national registry, no. States can (and do) collect taxes and registration fees from drivers who reside in that state, but they don’t typically collect on behalf of the federal government.
The US is a fake country. States have a massive amount of power, they control vehicle registration, sales tax, school programs… the federal government might as well not exist. The same applies to other so-called countries like Germany.
What’s the population density like chief? Based on online stats Germany is 6x more dense than the US as a whole (mostly due to those big states you’re comparing it to being < 100/mi².)
Oh, I know. Different places have different factors. The point of me putting the image up was just another example of comparing Germany to the US that doesnt have any contextual similarity.
How are you Americans doing car registration? As someone from another country it sounds a little bit crazy to not have a national car registry. Is this on the state level? And if someone from Texas is caught speeding in Arizona, police has to as there for the ID of the owner? Or is there no registry at all? And why shouldn’t states be able to collect a tax from their citizens?
Cars and drivers are registered on the state level, yes. There’s an agreement that licenses from every state are valid in every other state, and infractions in any state are prosecuted by the jurisdiction in which it happens. There is no national registry, no. States can (and do) collect taxes and registration fees from drivers who reside in that state, but they don’t typically collect on behalf of the federal government.
The US is a fake country. States have a massive amount of power, they control vehicle registration, sales tax, school programs… the federal government might as well not exist. The same applies to other so-called countries like Germany.
Germany btw has a central car and driving permit registration.
What’s the population density like chief? Based on online stats Germany is 6x more dense than the US as a whole (mostly due to those big states you’re comparing it to being < 100/mi².)
Hey there Captain!
If you combined Texas and California, you would have around the same population.
There are around six times more licensed drivers in the US than in Germany.
That really has nothing to do with the physical size of a country
Oh, I know. Different places have different factors. The point of me putting the image up was just another example of comparing Germany to the US that doesnt have any contextual similarity.
There’s a reason cops ask for license and registration.