06-04-2013, 04:06 AM
If you raise the registration fee everyone who has a car pays an equal share, if you raise the fuel tax the person in Puna, or Hamakua pays ten times as much as the Hilo citizen driving to work, and shopping. Maintenance costs rise and they has to be paid some how. This is the better choice in my view. If you can afford several "cruzers" as well as your regular car you can probably afford the increase.