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Except politicians don't stick around for 30+ years, nor do voters or their memories, and it's impossible to make any accurate calculation about how much one is going to make over the next however many years.

So now you have a few people in control of a big pot of future taxpayer money who have the ability to make up numbers however they see fit. There's only one way that story ends.

Not to mention the race to the bottom it causes as time goes on since there are fewer and fewer big organizations being courted by more and more desperate governments.



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