Local Governments Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps - NYTimes.com: "With the economy flailing and budgets strained, state and local governments are being creative about ways to raise money. And the go-to idea is to invent a fee — or simply raise one."
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Fees for responding to traffic accidents, "streetlight user fees," charges for idling your car engine, massive increases in parking rates and dog tags...the list goes on.
The pols think that fees are easier to impose than taxes because each fee hits a minority of people, but taxes hit much larger groups and generate opposition. Clever, isn't it?
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