@Skoob
First off, it was $120 per year. (if you owned a car in the province you would know that)
My bad. But I haven't paid in 4 years and at my age, I forget some things. But since you corrected me, that changes the numbers to 120M for 1M cars and over 4 years almost 5 Billion dollars (and what is that for 10m cars?) I wonder what we could have done with 50 billion dollars over the last for years ........... hmm.
Why would that just be dismissed as the cost of owning a car when we already pay taxes for roads, fuel, etc?
Because that is just the way it is. Put your big boy pants on and move on, nothing here.
It's not about collecting more money; it's about managing the money we currently have.
You can collect all the money you want but if it's not managed well, it really doesn't matter.
You are completely correct in that it comes down to managing correctly or mismanaging as well. If you have a revenue stream and mismanage it, you are at fault. If that results in reduced $ for health care, education etc. so be it! If you remove that revenue stream strictly for political reasons, that is also mismanagement. I wonder where the $ will come from to cover the grants for the battery producers ...... another hmmm.