What is a fee and what is a tax?
Generally, taxes are broad based (income, sales, property) and go to general revenue for services widely used (education, public safety, etc.). Fees are usually paid by a specific group and go to specific programs.
The lines do get blurred in some cases: the vehicle license fee for automobiles is pretty broad based and sounds more like a tax than a fee and there are some fees that wind up being used for things with wider benefit (i.e. environmental programs).
Legislatively, taxes can only be raised with a 2/3 vote while fees can be raised with a simple majority.
Prop 26 calls for some fees to be considered taxes and thus under the 2/3 vote rule for passage in the legislature.
There are situations where super-majorities make sense: you want broad consensus on a major policy issue.
I don't think fees crosses that threshold.
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