Moral Hazard

NOUN

economics

lack of incentive to guard against risk where one is protected from its consequences, e.g. by insurance.

I.e., if you bail out one bank, banks will not take precautions because they believe they will be bailed out, and you can expect to bail out every bank from here on out until you stop bailing out banks altogether.

Same thing with amnesty - we've granted amnesty like 5x and each time we were told it would be the last amnesty. Despite that, more illegals keep coming to this country because they believe we'll eventually pass another amnesty. And lord knows our politicians would love to give it to them while telling us that this time it will be the last amnesty for real!