The $1 you pay covers freeway call boxes and other stuff

Q. OK, Honk, you have mentioned there are far fewer call boxes on freeways today than there were in the last century. What happened to all the money that we pay for those call boxes? Didn’t the county put a dollar-per-car fee on the annual registration? Aren’t we still paying that dollar fee?
Ken Gregory, Anaheim
A. Ken, you received good marks back in school, yes? Your memory is stellar.
There is a buck-a-year fee on vehicles registered in Orange County that ends up in a p