Very upset over the $95 fee for license plate renewal. Does anyone else in the country pay so much? (Milwaukee: homes, cost)

[Milwaukee City]

I much prefer user fees to taxes, not in all cases but in some cases it makes sense.

[Milwaukee City]

Commercial trucks are $500 a year for plates, I don't know how much for other big vehicles such as RV's, semi trailers, planes and boats and such.

[Badger09]

Originally Posted by Deelightful

Hello everyone,

I'm so upset. I know this fee has been around for a while. It's just that our economy is so bad, and I feel we in Wisconsin need a break. My friend lives in Georgia, and I know she doesn't pay this much. My question is "What does this high fee pay for?" I feel like I'm getting ripped off. What about you?

When we left California, the last registration fee we paid was over $400. We don’t much mind it being under $100.

[Badger09]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

https://ballotpedia.org/Car_registra...by_state,_2018

Don’t know where they got the info, but that fee rate would have been a miracle in California.

[Badger09]

Originally Posted by tbecks

THE ROADS IN WISCONSIN SUCK!!!!!!!! Don't tell me the $20 fee coming from over 600,000+ people is fixing our damn roads!! Yes, there is major construction out there right now, but it's all freakin hwy, alot of it re-doing from 2 years ago (Example - Marquette interchange). There isn't anything being done about our local roads!! The City's idea of fixing potholes is to throw some asphalt down, smack it with a shovel a couple of times and let our cars do the rest as opposed to having a steam roller run over it. So guess what? They are going to be doing the same damn holes next year! And our cars have asphalt stuck to the paint! I'm so sick of being charged for **** I get nothing out of. I can't afford it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s what happens when you don’t properly use property taxes for your street maintenance and fuel taxes for State Highways.

[Badger09]

Originally Posted by sub

The guy with a f350 will still be paying significantly more in gas taxes than you, don't worry. It will more than make up for any differences in registration fees and surcharges. Your incentive for going green is saving money at the pump. Lack of extra government coddling isn't backwards in my book. As a democratic sympathizer, you should have no problem throwing a little extra money there way to support the cause.
Now that more people buy electrics and hybrids, simply raising the gas tax does not make sense. Evers is just a panderer like any other politician.

Electric cars and hybrids should be taxed on mileage.

[Milwaukee City]

I really wish their was a state law that said funds directed into the water fund have to be used for water stuff. Road funds must be used for roads, instead funds get raided and moved around from one pocket to the other and then the next mayor, governor or county executive comes in and moves money around wherever he wants to.

[brrabbit]

Originally Posted by Badger09

Electric cars and hybrids should be taxed on mileage.

Every car should be taxed on mileage equally! (or maybe proportionally to their weight?)

[MortonR]

Originally Posted by brrabbit

Every car should be taxed on mileage equally! (or maybe proportionally to their weight?)

Florida registration is based on weight. Of the car, that is...

RM

[Milwaukee City]

I just got my new Eagle endangered plates and it was $140 out the door.