Comment by bwanab

Not making this political since this is true across countries and the various political spectrums, but you can see the same thing happening in national budgets in terms of programs set up by legislation that have built in financing formulas. Years later people wake up and realize the program is now spending an order of magnitude more money than anyone would have supported in the beginning. It's the same phenomenon over a much bigger scale and timeframe. If only they'd inserted a hard budget cap.