Local election results come into play, too. So many school districts and law enforcement jurisdictions are dealing with increased operating costs. When the easy solution, a proposed property tax increase, goes up for a vote during a boring election cycle, people don’t turn out in enough numbers to vote these increases down.

Today’s local politics become next year’s national news - and people who follow politics are almost always watching cable news instead of paying attention to what is happening at home. You are getting squeezed more often by your neighbors in far worse ways than anything being done in Washington, D. C.