"john smith" wrote:

Thanks. I stopped registering the plane when the price went from
$12 to $100. I have been waiting for it to come back down.

I like lower taxes like anybody, but in Ohio as referenced here, if you
live in smog-check County, and a County with auto-registration add-on
tax, your dinky little compact truck costs you $75 to register. Have a
pilot-specific vanity plate it's then $95. Airplane was to be $100, but
that money was by new law to go to a dedicated airport improvement fund.

AOPA I think shot itself in the foot bitchin' about this tax. Made us
look like a bunch of cheapskates before State legislators and the Office
of Aviation. Flying in to talk to latter people in AOPA's CitationJet,
as the Office is located on an airport.

Agree or not, I thought it was comical. AOPA wrote letters to Gov. Bob
Taft pleading for relief on our behalf. Yes, a [slightly competent]
member of the prestigious Taft family, but who at the time was under
criminal investigation. For not reporting a constituent gift of a set
of freakin' golf balls. Pure politics. Taft recently pleaded no
contest to the misdemeanor; no jail time.

I get the image of Taft barking at his Chief of Staff, "Who's this guy
named Boyer? Find out what the First Lady pays to register her car.
And get my criminal defense att'y on the phone!" :-)

Fred F.