25% per year for 5 years is probably close to a 200% increase with compounding... that's pretty steep... What do they use to substantiate such an increase?
Here is an interesting read on how this came to pass... Landrieu and Vitter both voted for the bill... and now are both trying to stop some aspects of it.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...gert-wate.html