Self-study
Editorial: When legislators discover that some public service is not being adequately provided, their most common response is to boost the funding for that public service. ███████ ██ █████ ███ █████ ███████████ ███ ██████████ █████████████ ███ ███ ████ ████ ████ ████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████
Summary
Legislators usually boost funding for a public service whenever it’s discovered that that public service isn’t being adequately provided. Therefore, the least efficiently run government bureaucracies are the ones that usually receive increased funding.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The least efficiently run government bureaucracies are usually discovered by legislators to not provide a public service adequately.
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The least efficiently ███ ██████████ █████████████ ███ ███ █████████████ ████ ███████████ ████ ████████ ████████ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ██████ ███████ ███████████
If the least efficient bureaucracies are the bureaucracies that most commonly receive funding, these bureaucracies must most commonly receive increased funding.
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When legislators discover ████ █ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██████████ █████████ ████ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████████ █████████ ████ ████████
We don’t know whether legislators never respond by reducing funding. We only know that their most common response is to increase funding.
c
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We don’t know whether legislators repeatedly increase funding throughout their response. It is possible that legislators choose to increase funding for a public service just once.
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We don’t know whether bureaucracies receiving increased funding become less efficient as a result. It is possible that the remedy of increased funding works and these bureaucracies become more efficient than they once were.
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We don’t know whether inefficient bureaucracies receive more funding compared to any other bureaucracy. It is possible that inefficient bureaucracies receiving increased funding still receive less funding overall.