Quote (datajunky @ Nov 24 2013 12:23am)
LOL You are ridiculous...
Society built and pays for those roads with gasoline taxes. If you take away my FREEDOM to travel using gas powered personal conveyances you lose revenue for those fancy roads I HELPED PAY FOR. I bet you good coin that I pay more for the roads than most of you slumlord freeloaders anyways.
A driver's license is permission to drive while performing government business. Your business is none of their business. You do not need a license even if you are engaged in commerce - as long as the commerce is not government business. I'm assuming you didn't know that though based on your autonomous response. YOu are a SLAVE son. Man up for yourself and the future. Be a man not some child who BEGS for permission to travel. The way to change an unjust law is to challenge it.
Gasoline taxes, general fund taxes, bonds, etc... Regardless, you've admitted they aren't YOUR roads. Now for the next step: do you feel you have the right to drive a car on toll roads without paying the toll? Why or why not?
Your "freedom" to travel on publicly owned roads using gas-powered conveyances is conditional, not limitless. My tax money contributed to paying for our massive defense complex, does that entitle me to wander onto a base somewhere and look around? Maybe snap some pictures? "Borrow" some armaments? Of course not. Simply by paying taxes does not entitle you to anything. There are reasonable conditions which society imposes, and it doesn't take away your rights so much as restrict your ability to infringe on the rights of others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LicenseQuote
A license may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of a license is "an authorization (by the licensor) to use the licensed material (by the licensee)."
In particular, a license may be issued by authorities, to allow an activity that would otherwise be forbidden. It may require paying a fee and/or proving a capability. The requirement may also serve to keep the authorities informed on a type of activity, and to give them the opportunity to set conditions and limitations.
...and in the case of driver's licenses, they are permission to use dangerous machinery on public roads. They are granted by society (licensor) as a condition for using society's roads by the licensee. Engaging in commerce has nothing exclusive about licensing. Driving a car on the public's roads is not a right, it is a privilege.
If you think you're right about "permission to drive while performing government business," then you had better set out explaining exactly how and why you think that is.