Thanks Eric! Yeah it sort of happens everyday. In all aspects as well, whether it's "austerity measures" or wars or anything in between.
That's what they said about Vietnam and Iraq "it's just gonna be for a couple of months" hehe.. Little by little, reality changes and people get accustomed to it :P
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.
Oh I'm with you a 100%. In fact that's the main subject of the continuation of this post, the incremental increases :)