We recently got to see how the IRS reacted to a 3% budget cut built into the 2015 budget.
The wily scoundrels at the IRS, who've already demonstrated that they are one of the most evil organizations on the planet, have announced that in response to the budget cut they will reduce services to taxpayers. They will stop advising ordinary citizens on tax questions, reduce the number of telephone calls they will handle and they will generally reduce other taxpayer services.
If you think this is exceptional bureaucratic behavior, think back two years to the government shut down. Obama ordered flight controllers to delay flights out of LA and deliberately hassle air travel customers. He closed the White House to tours and closed all the monuments in Washington DC.
That is standard behavior for government bureaucracies. When you get a budget cut, punish the citizens.
When I worked with the California legislature in the 1960s, the worst highway in California was between San Francisco and Sacramento, Interstate 80. This highway got the heaviest traffic from political and government usage.
Caltrans, the agency responsible for maintaining and widening this vital highway always put the budget for expanding the San Francisco-Sacramento highway section at the bottom of their budget list. Telling the legislature to pay for everything else Caltrans dreamed of doing, or they would never get a better highway for the most important highway for the legislature.
I'm sure you get the message. Government bureaucracies first response to a budget cut is to punish citizens.
If I were to recommend a legislative remedy for this behavior by bureaucracies, I would suggest that any reduction in service to taxpayers or citizens would result in an automatic doubling the size of the budget cut in the coming year.
We need tools to deal with the evils of bureaucracy. This is just one suggestion.