Young People Are Driving Less—And Not Just Because They're Broke

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16. The insurance rates are one of the number one reasons I think

They are quite cost-prohibitive in an economy where wages have gone to the basement.

Another factor in some areas is the War on Drugs ( and young people. )

For example, Franklin County, Tennessee, with the help of the University of the South, is KNOWN for eating poor and middle class young people alive legally. A lot of parents are moving away from Franklin County because their kids have become - in my opinion - merely fodder to keep an overblown, un-American Police State going.

They have so many clerks, cops and county employees, they HAVE to regularly arrest kids to keep everybody paid. And the DA appears to HATE poor kids - he's put so many away it's sickening.

Once a kid is driving, he or she is just one more mark for unscrupulous cops, unethical lawyers, incompetent public defenders and judges who just process kids through like court is a goddamned sausage factory.

Kids are smart. They see their friends lose everything for one traffic stop, so they're laying low. The for-profit prison industry has changed the game for our kids, and we should all be ashamed.