They vote and demand more all the time. With the passage of the income tax, America left the realm of free enterprise and adopted the redistribution mentality. It took decades and several generations of falsely educated constituents to accept that security rests in the generosity of a benefactor. Now this erroneous tenet is seldom challenged. It has become an article of faith that the responsibility for abating all discomfort lies within the political dispenser.
Politicians are professional panderers.
They live to gain and keep power. The tax payer is compelled to become the self financing source for the bureaucrat who plays in a sandbox of never ending toys. Any objective observer must conclude that efficiency in government is absent and virtually non existent. At its core, the services that are the justification for the extraction of tribute seldom provide the benefits that are their promise. In business decisions should be made that reflect the stability and growth of the enterprise.