Here's an idea: South Carolina should issue license plates that identify the vehicles on our roads -- nothing more, nothing less.

Those who want to make a political or personal statement can slap bumper stickers on their vehicles to their hearts' content.

Read more stories on this subject in our license plates topic page.An editorial in The Island Packet about the "I Believe" license plates that recently had an injunction filed against them.

I, too, have said the battle for the license plates is a frivolous use of taxpayer money doing a period of economic crisis.

The paper reminds us that South Carolina's battle for "Choose Life" license plates wound up with the stating footing its own legal fees and $157,000 the Planned Parenthood incurred when fighting the state.