here’s what it does:

Generates 10 times more revenue for the same thing
that we used to get for one fee.

It’s a knee jerk response to teens driving like idiots and getting themselves killed.

Politicians all stand around saying “we have to do something right?”

In the reality it’s an idiotic system.

In some cases they make you start right at the beginning with learners permit AFTER you’ve been driving by yourself for years.