Package-dealing may be the biggest part of why government is bloated. Politicians agree to fund one politician's "pull package" so that they can get their "pull package" passed.

Do you remember when government had to pass separate bills for each of their departments? Oh wait, legally they still do.

The name makes me think how some people think ideas are package deals. If you accept one idea, you must accept a whole package. This is a form of tribalism. In this fallacy, if someone things one Catholic idea or one Republican idea, she must buy into a whole catechism or platform. This urge may have allowed people who lacked reason and science to work together in groups larger than a tribe. Now that it's easy to travel, talk, and ship goods anywhere and the economy rewards reason, I hope that reason will fill the role that tribalism filled in the times of when kingdoms, religion, and nation states were supreme.