Phooey, welcome to OLO.

<< Cost of living increase the symptom of ever increasing taxes… >>

Yes, but why are taxes and charges and the general cost of just about everything increasing?

We don’t have this ‘fiscal creep’ for no reason. We don’t have it because we have an inherently mean or greedy government. We have it because of a highly unbalanced demand versus supply capability ratio for our entire resource base…. and ever more stressed infrastructure, services and environment.

That is; we have a constantly and rapidly increasing demand exerted by population growth. THIS is the biggest causal factor.

John Coulter is spot-on with this article.