Licensing to drive seems like a scam, but a minor outpost on the scheme of scams great car-culture scams of car culture itself (the crime of jaywalking, pedestrian hostile roads, towns, and cities, suburban sprawl, all on top of the ridiculous cost of cars themselves, SUVs (cover a basic truck chassis and mark it up), SUVs classified as light trucks to avoid emissions standards...and on, and on, and on.)