Before you remove that sticker, you may want to take a moment and reflect upon all the clerks, senators, congressmen, lawyers and legal assistants that spent billable chunks of their lifetime working, slaving, and golfing that sticker into existance with nothing more to thank them for their efforts than a big giant check from the taxpayers of California. You live in California, and with the cost of passing a bill through Sacramento, it stands to reason that the sticker on your car's window is perhaps the most expensive part on the car.
California, oh how I don't miss that hellhole.