• Scrubbles
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    6923 days ago

    In America I have the right to travel FOR FREE! recites garbage thinking they’re a lawyer.

    Yeah, the right to travel. No restrictions against travel. You are very welcome to walk on over to another state for free. You can ask your friend for a ride and go over there. It’s just if you want to drive your own personal car on public roads, you have to pay to register it. Oh, did you not think that they obviously included that in the lawbooks? I’m sorry to burst your bubble but actual lawyers covered their asses, Jimmy Youtuber didn’t find out one sick way around it.

    • @[email protected]
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      -1323 days ago

      I’m not sure the book has been closed on this one. You don’t have to be a sov citizen to read the constitution and know that laws get passed all the time that violate civil rights for instance. Laws get overturned when they are challenged and someone has standing. Appeals courts are issuing rulings all the time that reverse what many assume was iron clad and untouchable. Jimmy YouTuber could be wrong but if he tests it and appeals with standing, we might just be surprised by the outcome.

      • @chiliedogg
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        823 days ago

        You can drive all you want on private land without having a license or insurance or registering your car. Some states even have tax-free fuel (especially diesel) you can buy for ag equipment, since the fuel tax is for maintaining roads.

        But when you use public roads you have to follow the rules and pitch in towards their maintenance.

        • @[email protected]
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          223 days ago

          All true. Most of the argument about free travel isn’t about taxes per se. It’s about being able to travel on those for which you paid taxes without further restrictive encumbrance. I’m sorry arguing for that but at the same time I understand the constitutional case for it.

          • @[email protected]
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            323 days ago

            I can guarantee you that most of the right-to-travel people are also 100% against taxes of any kind. I have a coworker who believes no one should need a license or car registration and is also fully against any kind of taxes whatsoever. If you mention public roads he just says “we made do without them before”.

      • @[email protected]
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        623 days ago

        Are lawyers taking up cases about stuff like whether the government has a right to mandate holding a driver’s license to legally drive?