RE: Still climbing

Yes, we are seeing it here as well. While I certainly don't have any issue with some of the small businesses who were truly impacted raise a bit to help their recovery, I do take issue with the local governments wanting to raise their taxes and costs to "recover from covid". The whole "recover from covid" debacle is their fault for making the poor decisions to shut down the small businesses, to use government funds for fake vaccine scams, etc. etc. I take great issue with those increases. And then there of course are the bogus businesses that conducted their price gouging during the shortages, and now the ones charging extra just because they can join the bandwagon, even though their costs may have actually gone down do to remote working, site closure, layoffs, etc. Feels a little better to complain, but doubt we'll see much change. I encourage folks to pay attention and spend your money elsewhere than the scammers, and perhaps some healthy competition will brings things back down. Or on second thought slow the increases, I doubt we'll see much lowering again from here in our lifetimes.. Where the Star Trek replicators so everything is just free? lol