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There isn't really. In this case, the organization paying the cost has the power to confiscate whatever it needs from the citizens to fund its expenses. They are not operating with the financial motivational pressures of a business or even a non-profit organization.

All of government is a big cost shared by everyone paying into the common fund. That doesn't seem to have created any incentive at all to control spending. Quite the opposite in fact.




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