States Keep Spending Millions on Unjustified Vehicle Inspection Programs Backed by Lobbyists
8th December 2016
Texas spends $275 million a year on a vehicle inspection program and has never bothered to find out if it makes the public safer or healthier.
The Lone Star State isn’t alone. None of the other 14 states with vehicle safety inspections could provide the Government Accountability Office with any evidence justifying the existence of the programs.
Sounds like the perfect government program.
December 8th, 2016 at 09:20
The EPA is also involved.
In the days before emissions testing, I knew of a gas station run by two Greek brothers (who spent most of the day arguing with each other – in Greek) where you could drop off your car and it would ALWAYS pass inspection. Bald tires? No horn? One headlight? Didn’t matter. Now if you stayed at the gas station, it would actually get inspected and they would always find something wrong. Once we customers understood the scam and dropped off the cars, all was right with the world.
December 8th, 2016 at 14:57
So Texas, Bastion of Freedom and The American Way, suffers from unnecessary government regulations pushed by special interests? I’m shocked, I tell you…shocked.