This behavior gets even worse with term limits, as we are seeing in California. Many state assemblymen and senators on the left are spending their terms shoveling taxpayer money to interest groups and especially “non-profits” through a wide range of irrational and useless laws and programs. Then they wind up retiring from state “service” and getting $500K/year no-show or board jobs with these outfits as a reward.
And the only way to really stop it is to stop gov’t from interfering in every little thing, so people don’t feel the need to buy them off. Real LIMITED gov’t would do the most to solve this.