It's a 375% jump

Really, you should just be glad that you're smart enough to not have any DWIs instead. (Right?)

At least in Texas, they also charge you a pretty substantial (not "token") surcharge for your DL renewal (or just in general? Not sure.) if you have DWIs (or an excessive number of points) on your recent record. More on the program here. It's totally a revenue opportunity rather than "a responsibility program", but either way ... they screw people who get DWIs hard. Possibly hard enough that they get the idea that it's a bad idea?

They screw those who drive without insurance too. A $500 or so ticket, plus $250+4%/year for three years? I guess it does make Virginia's fee look "token" in comparison.

A side note, bicycle related -- the City of Austin has made it clear that they will assign points on this program for offenses incurred on a bicycle, even though the relevant code says that only offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle apply (and a bike is not a motor vehicle.) Obviously DWI and no insurance offenses don't apply to bikes (in Texas, DWI law says motor vehicle, other states may be different) but running a red light a few times and such would.

Either way, I imagine somebody could fight that in court and win, but I don't know that anybody has.