• @PrettyLights
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    -79 months ago

    How do you feel about the Amish using buggies on roads without license plates or paying gas tax?

    • @Agrivar
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      229 months ago

      Buggies are animal-powered, and by law (in nearly all states) that exempts the vehicle from needing plates. You don’t have to be Amish to “take advantage” of this “loophole.”

      • @PrettyLights
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        89 months ago

        Good news for the sovcits then! Let’s hope they never discover this loophole

      • @[email protected]
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        79 months ago

        Around here you can drive “farm implements” on roads without licenses. I know a redneck dude who drives his tractor to go to the legion since he lost his drivers license.

    • brianorca
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      119 months ago

      Indiana actually does require a license plate and fee for a horse drawn carriage. Most other states do not at this time, though there are proposals in some.

      • Flying Squid
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        19 months ago

        Ah, that’s why I was about to tell OP that wasn’t true. I’m in Indiana and haven’t ever seen Amish people when I’ve been to other states.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      Buggies are very popular here in Kansas and they’re not allowed to use most of the roads. They have to obey the same traffic laws as everybody else.

      • @PrettyLights
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        29 months ago

        In central PA they’re all over the main roads and cause extensive wear and tear as well as traffic jams

        If I drove as slow as they ride I’d be pulled over for obstructing the flow of traffic