why do people pay for these plates???

Everyone knows what vanity plates are. You get a new Z car and get
vanity plates that say Z ONE or something.

But every so often I see a car, lets say a NISSAN, where the owner has
shelled out the bucks for a vanity plate that says NISSAN. Or they
have a Ford F-150 and get plates that say F-150. What's the point????
--
Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts:

"What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the
establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . .
Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of
the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order
to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Debate, U.S. House
of Representatives, August 17, 1789