Jay Beckman wrote:

I didn't put a lot of emphasis on it, but what I was getting at was the cost
to register versus the cost of the vehicle being registered.

But you still seem to have missed the point. The major point of license fees is
to pay the costs of infrastructure. There's a lot of that with cars, so the
registration cost is high. There's comparatively little of that for light
aircraft, so the registration fees are low. The fees have nothing to do with the
relative values of the aircraft and autos, and shouldn't have.

George Patterson
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your slightly older self.