My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nea

My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nearly a tenth of everything I spend goes to taxes, and that's on top of federal income tax, social security tax, federal unemployment tax, state unemployment tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, fuel tax, excise tax, cable and internet tax, phone tax, restaurant tax, and probably a dozen others. Other localities in other states are worse than that.