Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by nighthawk
...and now you understand the genesis of the wheel tax. Trivial until you add up all the wheels.


What's a wheel tax?

You have a vehicle registration fee and the state/county/city wants more. So instead of raising registration fee they authorize a "wheel tax" add-on which they try to pass off as a sort of use tax. All those extra wheels are wearing out the road so pay up sucker.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.