The phrase "adding to the burdens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where additional responsibilities or difficulties are being imposed on someone or something.
Example: "The new regulations are adding to the burdens faced by small businesses during this challenging economic period."
Alternatives: "increasing the load" or "compounding the difficulties".
Perhaps Mattis, the last remaining "adult in the room," will balk at adding to the burdens on the military.
The United Nations reported that more than 800,000 Syrians had their livelihoods wiped out by these droughts, and many were forced to move to the cities to find work — adding to the burdens of already incompetent government.
Hundreds of bodies are washing up along some shores in northeastern Japan, making clearer the extraordinary toll of the earthquake and tsunami that struck last week and adding to the burdens of relief workers as they ferry aid and search for survivors.
You can argue about whether it is really a break, since people overseas quite naturally tend to have their assets where they live, but this raises an interesting question, one other readers have also picked up: whether Congress actually expected to generate substantial revenue by adding to the burdens of expat life or whether the minnows were just caught up in a net meant for bigger fish.
The Times says Theresa May may succeed in attracting wavering Labour voters but she would be adding to the burdens on employers and laying herself open to the charge of putting party politics above what's right for the economy.
That he supports a Ryan budget that "solves" the contradictions of the Reagan growth model only by gutting the U.S. welfare net and adding to the burdens of the American poor.
Unions fear part-time jobs will be axed, adding to the burden on remaining workers and lowering standards.
"We don't want to be adding to the burden they are already under from the World Trade Center and the airplane crash.
And if the spammers have used a real person's email address, you'll just be adding to the burden inflicted on some hapless bystander.
In other areas of life, like say, Medicare Part D, the government can at least avoid adding to the burden.
Transportation and Parking Commissioner Maro Yacoubian said during a meeting this week that she was against adding to the burden.
