The scourge of LTO’s idiotic schemes

If there’s one thing Aquino administration officials are good at, it is their penchant for coming up with schemes to either make things life harder for our poor countrymen or squeeze more money out of ordinary Filipinos, all in the guise of “public welfare.” And no one exemplifies this better than Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Alfonso Tan, Jr.

Recently, Tan came out with a harebrained plan requiring first-time applicants for driver’s licenses as well as those renewing their professional drivers or conductors’ licenses to first secure an NBI and police clearance supposedly to prove that “the applicant has not been convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude or reckless imprudence resulting from reckless driving.”