Another tax that’s not a tax. Any way the government can extort a few more bucks. Politicians love fees and licenses because it accomplishes the same thing as increasing taxes (raises revenue for the state) without as much political scrutiny. New fees and license requirements tend to fly under the radar.

In this case they want to raise fees (and in turn revenues) by 20%. Imagine if our politicians proposed raising property, income and sales taxes by 20% across the board…There would be hell to pay with voters and it would never fly but dmv fees? Well just a few bucks here and there what’s the big deal.