Here’s the increased “fee” schedule proposed by the Department of Transportation:
- Cars – up from $55 to $80, a 44% increase
- Light trucks weighing less than 4,501 pounds – up from $48.50 to $80, a 65% increase
- Light trucks weighing between 4,501 and 6,000 pounds – up from $61.50 to $89, a 44.7% increase
- Light trucks weighing between 6,001 and 8,000 pounds – up from $77.50 to $112, a 44.5% increase
Those tax hikes, which will dump $208 million into the coffers over the next 2 years, will allegedly go to “critical” road needs such as road maintenance and rebuilding the Vote Fraud/FIB Highway between Illinois and Milwaukee. More likely, it, like the $600+ million raided by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) in the last budget, will go to contributors of Doyle.
Further, they want to increase the fees for the 8-year driver’s licenses from $24 to $34, a 42% increase. Supposedly, that $22 million over the next 2 years will go toward federal requirements to make the licenses a more secure form of ID.
Look for the ‘Rat-infested State Senate to propose a return to the automatic increase in gasoline taxes next year as well. Yipee; we can be COMPLETELY hostile to drivers now.
“Thank” you, Mary Panzer and Dale Schultz, for not taking any action to protect the taxpayers.
