A few weeks ago I got into a discussion with Representative Haire
from Jackson County (Home of the Smoky Mountain Mustangs!) on his plan
for a bill for the state to create a board to help folks clean up old mobile homes.  I just found this article
from the Citizen-Times.  When he responded that consumers would
pay an additional fee on a new home for the betterment of the
community, I said a fee on the consumers is a TAX.  He said “Oh
it’s no tax, but just a fee to help the neighborhood.”  I must be
too much of a free market person, but when a politician says fee what
do think a free market person has going through their mind?