I am sick and tired of being nickled and dimed to death. The fees here, the taxes there are all designed to make us not realize how much we pay in taxes. Sales taxes went up 1/4 of 1% in California as of Jan 1. We don't notice it. Hey ya buy a $4 item... now you pay 33 cents as opposed to 32 cents in taxes. You buy a $40,000 car though, and it tacks on $100 to the purchase price.
I am not opposed to all government spending. The politicians, democrat and republican as well are terrified of what would happen if we went to a flat tax and killed all the nickle and dime fees. If every time you bought something, you pay a value added tax there would be so much pressure to reduce the %. It's so much easier to nickle and dime us into sleep.