In Michigan, on Jan. 1, The Stupid Party, which is in charge of the legislature and governors office, added about a 30% bump to license plates, so I'll be paying nearly $40.00 MORE per year for each of my 2 vehicles. Plus they increased the gas tax by about a dime a gallon. Here's the rub. We voters turned down a ballot proposal a year ago by a 75% margin for that exact plan. Part of the reason was that the legislature and governor would not guarantee that 100% of that increase in taxes and fees would go into road repair exclusively, which is obviously necessary. They wanted to divert about half of the money into horse trails, hiking trails, bicycle paths inter alia. Duh.
Give you 3 guesses what they are doing now with this increase that we said a resounding NO to. About half of the increase in going to road repairs. The other half is going into the general fund and now they are whining that they are a couple billion dollars short of road repair money. I'm not a violent person but beatings, whippings, being put in stocks and having garbage thrown at them and then being tarred, feathered and carried down to the local river and chucked in sounds pretty good to me right now.