This reminds me of a story I read in today's newspaper; the towns in my
state are accusing the state government of attempting to steal boat
registration fees from the town. Towns that are on our major lakes have
grown accustomed to serious revenues from boat registrations, but now the
state is making a move to capture that revenue. The towns don't provide many
services to boaters, but they do seem to enjoy the fees.

Actually, nothing in this thread reminded me of anything related to boating,
but I didn't have an opinion on the spelling ability of the previous posters
so I thought I'd add a comment that was somewhat boating related.