Aurornis parent
I’m reading the bill. This is saying they’ll authorize private services to renew licenses in parallel with the public DMV.
Yes, that’s step one. Step two is to ruin the public option. Step three is to complain about how bad the public option is.
We've had step one for decades in California. AAA does a portion of what the DMV does for their members. And they do it better and faster.
There's never been any step two (cynically, the organization does that themselves). Everyone has been doing step three since time immemorial which is why AAA lobbied to start providing DMV services to their members.
It is the best of both worlds. Nobody is denied service yet AAA members don't have to deal with poorly-incentivized government workers for many common bureaucratic tasks.
And step four, shut down the public option for further "efficiency and cost savings" allowing the private options to squeeze out higher and higher rents.
Washington state has something like that. It doesn't seem so bad.