Of course it is. Who do you think will pay the extra cost? The consumer. The slimy charlatan is playing word games, I'm surprised you don't have the intellect to see that, or are you for corporate taxes on thing like oil as Hillary wants?
A driver of a car and a driver of an 18 wheeler pay the same tax on a gallon of fuel. That's a tax.
The driver of the 18 wheeler, however, pays for permits to haul on the roads - used to repair the damage done. That's a fee.
Why twist everything to slam Romney? Never mind...I don't care what your logic is.
Governor Romney: "Well, they call one a fee and one a tax for a reason. The reason is because with the fee, it is applied directly to people who get a particular service. It's not a service that you have to have, but a service that you'd like to have. And so we did not raise fees on things like car registration or driver's licenses because pretty much everybody has to have that. But some of our fees... for instance, there's a fee for putting a billboard announcing where a McDonalds or Burger King is on the interstate. Those fees haven't been raised in sometimes many, many years, and so we raised them in order to keep up with inflation or to keep up with the cost of providing the service. We didn't raise them except our first year, but it was a source of revenue, and it brought in line the fee that we charge for certain services. And some cases, the cost of providing it."