Help Decide How NHTSA Spends Your Tax Dollars
Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | No Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the federal government's lead agency when it come to safety policies and regulations; including speed limits, DUI laws, cell phone and texting bans, federal subsidies for speed traps and ...
Compulsary Insurance Won’t Work
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 10 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President One of the hot button issues dominating the health care debate is the proposal that all citizens must buy health insurance. Of course the health insurance industry thinks this is a great idea. ...
9 Things You Need To Know About “Cash For Clunkers”
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 16 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President A recent public information report on Congress’s “Cash for Clunkers” legislation has been released to spell out the general details. Keep in mind that this is not set in concrete and the final outcome is not ...
GM Should Not Stand For “Government Motors”
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 26 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President It’s now becoming common to refer to GM as “Government Motors.” From a realistic perspective, this is an impossibility. If you have ever visited, or worked in, an automobile assembly plant you have to have an appreciation ...
Watch Your Wallet When Driving Through These 10 States
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 77 Comments »With the first major driving holiday of the summer season approaching, we have analyzed the laws across the country to determine the best and the worst states when it comes to exploiting the motoring public. These state rankings were calculated using ...
Why Haven’t Toll Road Charges Been Reduced?
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Toll Roads | 3 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The proponents of toll roads and the use of variable pricing to mitigate congestion seem to be sending mixed signals. Not very long ago the use of new technology to charge motorists a fee every time they ...
They’re After New Hampshire
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 17 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President New Hampshire has been a thorn in the side of the command and control safety establishment for decades. Since the 1970’s the safety commandos have preached that mandatory seatbelt laws and seatbelt use will prevent the ...
Where Does The Money From A Speeding Ticket Go?
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 13 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President In this land where reality and fiction are indistinguishable there is a dead legal principle that says judges and courts should not personally benefit from the results of their rulings. Obviously, there is a conflict of ...
The Ignition Interlock Hoax
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in DUI/DWI | 5 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President MADD and its bloated stepmother, NHTSA, have been pushing for mandated ignition interlock devices (IIDs), preferably in all vehicles, but they know from experience these things have to be done in an incremental fashion, or there ...
Why Are Politicians Trying To Kill The Fuel Tax?
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 4 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President A federally appointed commission just released a report spelling out the demise of fuel taxes as a means to fund transportation projects. To replace the fuel tax they recommend that all vehicles be equipped with monitoring ...
