Great point, MP!
It's very simple: If you don't like paying the fees DON'T PARK THERE!
Speaking of the founding of this country, the fact is that The American Revolution was the result of a COMMERCIAL enterprise of one Thomas Paine, who's primary motive for writing "Common Sense" was MAKING MONEY. As the story goes, he was a commercial flop in Britain, so he wrote this little pamphlet and somehow it caught on in the Americas and became a best-seller. Nevermind that others then picked up the ball and took the principles within the book and politicized it. Paine's primary motive was commercial success.
That kinda flys in the face of our grade-school notions of how this country was founded, but a fact it is!