Interesting fact:
I live in Indiana, and Indiana is the only state that does this, so dont worry. When you get a customized plate here, ANY customized plate, you are charged a $70 fee on top of normal license charges. Yeah, it's a little high, but that's not the point. Point is, $40 of that 70 is split between the democrats and republicans as campaign money! That's right, every time you get a customized plate here, you're donating to political parties without your knowledge! Isn't that just great! It was passed a while back tacked on to a big bill, and of course neither party is going to take it off. It generates on average about 1.2 MILLION dollars a year, split between the two parties, tax free.
******* state.