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Maybe you are right. Thank you for letting me see your side of things.

Yeah, but that's like extortion. Like the program Carlo talks about in Italy and other parts of the EU: - What it also means is that those with money can pay their way for better gov't service. How is that fair to the people who don't have the luxury of paying the "extra" fee? All citizens...

If that $50 fee went back into the State Treasury, that might be argued as reasonable (maybe). But if that $50 fee is just lining the pocket of a private business, then….then I'm just going WAY off OP, here! So, hush my mouth.

Or: - If you have enough cash, you can BUY better government than your neighbor gets. Something about this doesn't strike me as the kind of thing that would thrill Thomas Jefferson. (but take me here with a grain of salt; I'm a Virginian, and the OP is about Maryland).

So, if you have enough money: - You can pay a private service to compensate for the incompetence (or call it "inconvenience") of the public service - And if not, you are stuck (and unequal under the law). - Or, in other words: everybody in MD is equal under the law, but (if you can afford...

That's a private business? Doing brokering for State services?

Hey Brother(s), everything else aside, WELCOME to you from here in the Old Dominion State of Virginia. Not a hijack, just a little conversation... Plumb2good - I see that you're in St. Mary's County. Back in my days on Reserve I used to drill out at Pax River occasionally. Always wondered...