I agree.

I work for a state agency and I can tell you how this often comes to be.

When somebody gets elected the chances are they are a lawyer.

The first thing they do is hire their friends who also are usually lawyers.

A lawyers job is making paperwork.

Lets say that the government is running along fine and everything is good. These lawyers get bored. What do bored lawyers do? They request studies, make changes to laws, anything to create junk paperwork.