Another monetary distraction

I don't want to focus on this too much, but I do want to point out the misdirection expected from Virginia's GOP for the upcoming election:

House Republican leaders are preparing a statewide election-year campaign strategy centering on abolishing the car tax, raising money to pay for road projects and cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

The plan -- still in its early stages -- is designed to give GOP candidates a shared platform on which to campaign for the general election.

The details of the unified House GOP agenda will be finished by the June primary elections, lawmakers and strategists said. And they said the initiatives are likely to include proposals that, for instance, would raise money through fee increases or call for developing private toll roads to ease traffic congestion without raising Virginia's gasoline tax.

So basically, the GOP is proposing no new "taxes" per se, but instead proposing other ideas that will cost taxpayers money to cover transportation costs. So I must ask again, what the hell is the difference, really?

Say a supermarket one day told you it was going to stop charging taxes, but would instead charge you a "transportation fee" added on to the cost of food. You are still paying the same costs, in fact, they could probably soak you for more charging an ambiguous sort of fee like that. But they cut your taxes, didn't they? Would that seriously make you feel that much better?

Just a little nit I wanted to pick.