Your tax dollars not at work, but rather being poured down the toilet.

Missouri liked some license plate numbers so much, they handed out duplicates of them!

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - About 1,500 Missouri motorists are driving around with new license plate numbers that actually belong to someone else.

The Department of Revenue acknowledged Thursday that it printed 20,000 sets of duplicate license plates, 1,502 of which already had been distributed to motorists before officials learned of the mistake July 8.

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The mistake will cost the state about $55,000 to print new license plates, plus the cost of shipping them to motor vehicle licensing offices and individuals who were given the wrong plates.