If the least efficient bureaucracies are the bureaucracies that most commonly receive funding, these bureaucracies must most commonly receive increased funding.

We don’t know whether legislators never respond by reducing funding. We only know that their most common response is to increase funding.

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.

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.

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.