I think the point of a lot of these 'one-time' expenditures are to prevent sustained expenditures from the budget so that these expenses don't have to be 'cut' in bad times, they just stop providing the 'extra' funding to these departments. In some ways its better to do it this way as it doesn't commit the government to spend more than it has in any given year. The bad thing is it means unstable funding for some essential institutions.
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