5 Feet of Fury

Harsanyi: Free speech or just annoying?

David Harsanyi writes:

In the “choose life” case, Illinois claims that a license plate conveys government, rather than private, speech. If that is so, what should we do about the other 19 states that do allow “choose life” — which is clearly a political statement?

Nationally, specialty license plates generate tens of millions of dollars, so we will never see an end to them. Yet, do license plates really need to convey anything more than a government ID number?