History shows us something consistently: no temporary tax has ever actually stayed temporary.

Look at any major economy—what started as crisis-era taxation became the new baseline. Policymakers who pitch temporary measures are either delusional about how fiscal systems work, or they're banking on public amnesia.

Once governments have a revenue stream, it calcifies into permanence. That's not ideology, that's institutional incentive structure. Anyone betting their portfolio on "temporary" government intervention is overlooking a centuries-long pattern.