You're welcome! So true. It's great to by hyper aware of this kind of thing so we don't become like the cooked frogs. : ) I see taxes the same way. A new tax is created and it's just menial at first but it incrementally gets larger and more of a burden over time. Our property taxes in the city I live in have become out of control. Before we sold our home we'd have to pay our quarterly property taxes but then the city started billing us for "special assessments" that were over and above the normal property taxes. We'd get these nice little surprises twice every year. The bills ranged from a few hundred dollars to almost five thousand dollars and had to be paid in 90 days.