screech339 said:
Has it occurred to you that by raising the fee, to make the applicant cover almost all of the actual cost of processing it. That to me, means less of my taxes going to pay for someone else's citizenship. That's not raising revenue. That's reducing government expenses thus called savings.
The fee increase is not retroactive on current applications. The people already in queue (1-4 years of applications) already paid off less then the current expenses.
I.e. the new fees will act as an injection of new money into the system. If you stop new applications, you will have a full year of same (or more) expenses, but less revenues
Also notice that the new fees is projected to cover the current process expenses, but with new rules, which are more complex (for instance more day counting, tax forms etc) may end up costing much more (This is also why I don't believe in the "under 1 year processing time")
Don't know what is your line of work, but there is a high probability, that I paid more taxes then you in the last few years.
That said I am willing to pay extra high fee if they are willing to review my application in an efficient manner, What I don't like is paying the more for less service
