Tell more about how to fight outrageous rules

Why didn't Marni Pyke or the Herald run the full story on this license plate renewal debacle? You missed more than half of the story.

If you just take the figures in your story: It costs the state 88 cents per license plate to send out the renewal notices through the U.S. post office. Now you have to sign up for email notification so that you don't get pulled over and fined by the police for non-renewal. If you do get pulled over, what is the cost of the fine and what is the cost of the late fee?

On top of that, if you do get the notice by email you have two choices: 1, Pay online, which costs you a convenience fee of $2.25 per plate renewal or 2, a trip to your local DMV.

This is another red light/speed camera looming.

If again, you take the figures in the paper, for the month of November 2015: 413,709 (all the while decrying the loss of renewals compared to November 2014) and presuming that this is wave of the future and all will be done online, the state just pulled in $930,845.25 in convenience fees!

So this is a win-win for the state. The state has not only saved the $450,000 a month but they are collecting $930,845.25-plus every month.

This is just another way to rip off the Illinois taxpayer.This state is becoming worse and worse and those in charge try every which way they can to obfuscate the issues.

Our only hope is through the press. We urge the Herald to follow up and FULLY report this excess and corruption in Illinois taxation and how people can fight back.

Ron and Nancy Granstrom

Wheeling