An NR editorial notes that even the revised, tiered system proposed by Gov. Spitzer is unlikely to work:
Only two states — Tennessee and Utah — have tried this type of tiered licensing program, and only Utah still uses one. Tennessee's Democratic governor pulled the plug on his state’s program after federal regulators discovered widespread fraud and abuse. Utah claims its program has achieved limited success, but its population is only about a seventh of New York's. The bureaucratic challenges of implementing such a system in the Empire State would be nothing less than nightmarish, as Dodd pointed out in the debate.