Rules added to public programmes are rarely matched by deletions, so a programme's conditions grow over its life unless someone is charged with removing them.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  it is impossible to read these bills and guidelines and not notice that the additions are rarely matched by deletions process is enthusiastically added but seldom lifted

• backsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  A government that tries to accomplish too much all at once often ends up accomplishing nothing at all.

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