[bubbacluck]

That's why we say NO when they ask for small, TEMPORARY tax hikes.

"It will only be for a year, to get us over the emergency", they say.

The taxes seem to always become permanent.

Everyone with a brain knew these water measures would become the new normal.

[oh8eleven]

The taxes seem to always become permanent.
Waaaaay back in the day ('20s?), there was a Federal gasoline tax to pay the WWI soldiers' bonuses.
IIRC, that tax wasn't dropped until sometime in the '90s