#%@% DMV! (corrected rant) [Whoops. Hit 'send' prematurely on previous entry and cannot edit presently. Here's the full-fledged rant.]

I bounced a check to the DMV and rec'd a fairly annoying threat letter from them along with a tacked-on 33% penalty (though "Fair Tax" aficionados would call it 25% - from which the reader who is good with math should be able to deduce the original cost).

So there's this crazy line in the last paragraph after a threat to sic the Awesome Power of the State (i.e. the AG) on me (and yes, the whole letter is in ALL CAPS, as all good thug notes are):

IN ADDITION, THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY FUTURE SERVICES.

(Notice how they spell out 'DMV'? Nice touch. Asses!)

So, umm, I am just thinking to myself: How can I possibly work this 'no future services' deal?! (and I also wonder: Do people always think in italics?) I mean, seriously, who needs any SERVICE the DMV could possibly provide. Please! Cut me off! If only it were that simple. I wonder what would happen if I sent back a note saying "Thanks. Please discontinue all services as soon as possible and leave me in FUCKING PEACE, you soul-leeching bastards!" Think they'd leave me in peace? Hell, no! As an equally thugacious (but better armed) IRS moron told me a few weeks ago "We are required to provide you with this service." To which I can only reply most eloquently: ???!!?!?!???!!!???

The funny part (haha, I can't stop laughing) is that I really have no idea what particular 'service' this is for anyway. Why do they run such a pretense of business? Why not just send periodic threatening letters saying 'give us money!' and spare us the gobbledygook about 'services'? Hell, why not just get our bosses to send them our paychecks and they can send back what they think we 'deserve'.

Fuckers.

OK. Pottymouth attack over. Do you see what a decivilizing effect the state has on generally equable people?
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