despite most of the bills never being read by those voting, containing massive increases in spending

And that's why I don't vote anymore. It's just a scam to trick us into handing over the consent of the governed, while those of us who aren't rich enough to hire a lobbying firm to put a senator in our pocket have little to no say in our government. But if enough people withdraw their consent, it can collapse like Eastern European communist governments did at the end of the Cold War.