A Tag-Office Tale That Could Only Happen In K.C.

Okay, here is the scenario. We live in Midtown KC in a 100-year-old fixer-upper shirtwaist. When we moved into this house my husband bought a 1987 Ford Ranger for the express purpose of trips to the Home Depot and Costco, about four blocks away. There is no off-street parking available for this vehicle, and it is not a primary car.

Since the Downtown Kansas City tag office remains closed (and we never received our renewal notice! ) we decided that as an act of political protest, we would not renew the tags on that vehicle (they expired July 31) until the downtown office is re-opened. The property tax is paid, the inspection is current, and the vehicle is insured. We are simply refusing to drive that vehicle until we can tag it at the downtown office, thus depriving the state of the tag fee and the gasoline taxes that we would be paying if we were driving that vehicle. It remains parked in front of my house. It will not move until the tags are legal. I repeat, I do not have off-street parking available for that vehicle.

Kansas City won't let a little thing like state incompetence and corruption stand in the way of extorting it's citizens. Yesterday, when I got home from work, the Ranger had a ticket on the window for expired tags. So they want me to pay a penalty to the state when I do tag the truck and a $38.50 fine to the city for refusing to drive out to Lee's Summit or Raytown to buy my tags? This is outrageous!

I'm going to court and fighting this one! And hopefully I will get a judge that recently stood in line for two hours to tag his or her own vehicle because there is no way the little private offices can absorb the customer base of the largest office in the county!

I have said this before, and I doubt this is the last time I repeat it:
Matt "The Boy Blunder" Blunt: Worst. Governor. Ever.