But I'll need a little extra for the sales tax....

to mail contribution to DPVA.  Thanks, Bob!

a guitar pick.

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which is priceless

the new American petrodollar

either buy .333 of a gallon of gas or put into my savings account to earn some interest.

...This is actually a principled request.  The fee was imposed to fund the 400th anniversary of Jamestown.  That commemoration is now done.  The fee should go.  If the state wants/needs the $1 for each registration, then new legislation should be introduced to this effect.

Who here claimed the Telephone Excise Tax Refund on their Federal returns last year?  This was the result of a "luxury" tax levied on phone service in 1898 to fund the Spanish-American Way but never repealed when the war ended.  BPOL taxes were initially levied on blacksmiths to pay for Virginia's quota for the costs of the War of 1812.  We've got lots of taxes and fees that were originally intended for single, limited purposes that stayed on the books well after those purposes had been met.

Democrats get the "tax and spend" label in part because we make light of proposals like Bob McDonnell's.  A dollar here, a dollar there, pretty soon we're talking some real money.  When a new tax or fee is levied for a specific purpose, when that purpose has been fulfilled, the tax or fee should be repealed.  If the money is needed in the general fund or for new purposes, then the legislature and governor should address that funding separately and in the light of public debate rather than basically using bait and switch to take a fee intended for one purpose and keeping it for another.

Renaissance Ruminations agrees with you about this.