Fiscal crises and cop/firemen salaries etc......

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/29/MN7OVQOPK.DTL&tsp=1

Basically another demokkkrat problem; govt. workers' unions are a major pillar of financial support for the dems.

The other thing that happens is that these binges are most often fueled by rapid increases in housing assessments; When that happens, governments are morally obligated to reduce RATES of taxation so that nobody's taxes rise faster than inflation as an outside figure, but in real life that never happens. In the Great Falls area of Fairfax County Va in the late 80s during one particularly savage spiral of that sort, people were having to choose between food and heat because of the tax spiral.