I pay all sorts of taxes. Call any one of them you'd like a usage fee, just like you do with motor vehicles.
There is no such labeled fee. And that's what you are hung up on. Taxes are paid that more than cover bicycle use, and you are hung up on the lack of a label.
Try to redefine it any way you want, but that's not how it's defined in the state of IL.
(625 ILCS 5-1.171) (from Ch. 95 1-2, par. 1.171) Sec. 1.171. Registration . Registration Sticker. Registration. The registration certificate or certificates, registration plates and registration stickers issued under the laws of this State pertaining to the registration of vehicles. Registration Sticker or Stickers. A device or devices to be attached to a rear registration plate that will renew the registration and registration plate or plates for a pre.determined period not to exceed one registration year except as provided in subsection (1) of Section 3.414 of this Code. Should the Secretary of State determine it is advisable to require a registration sticker to be attached to a front registration plate, he may require such action and provide the necessary additional sticker. Such determination shall be publicly announced at least 30 days in advance of a new annual registration year. (Source: P.A. 80.1185.)
Where does 'user fee' come in? I didn't fine it in the registration section either. All there is, is your interpetation.
So complain to someone living in a state where it's defined as a road usage fee.
You started it, and you're still wrong. I'll rename the cook county TB sanitiarium tax the 'bicycle road usage tax'. Now every one in cook county IL pays to use a bicycle on the roads. Same thing you're doing. It's your interpetation of 'registration' but it's not.
