Klein v. Flanery

I respectfully dissent. As the majority concedes, Appellants raise “important, legitimate questions” about the recurrent and now habitual practice of the executive and legislative branches to suspend certain statutes in order to divert license fees and *123user fees collected from citizens engaged in regulated activities. Citing to Armstrong v. Collins, 709 S.W.2d 437 (Ky.1986), defenders of the practice justify it upon the questionable grounds that the suspensions are just “temporary” and the diverted money is just “surplus,” and, therefore, subject to dispensation far removed from the purposes…