It's not just recent ones. There are plenty of older ones piling up slowly over time. We start taking the old ones for granted and they become next to impossibl

It's not just recent ones. There are plenty of older ones piling up slowly over time. We start taking the old ones for granted and they become next to impossible to remove. See the mortgage interest deduction or Prop. 13 in California or employer-sponsored health insurance or the essentially eternal copyright we have now.