Passage Summary: Because a perfect government office creates a new rule every time a new problem pops up during an appeal, its rulebook will keep getting bigger forever.

Conclusion: A perfect bureaucracy will inevitably possess a regulatory system that never stops growing.

Reasoning: Ideal bureaucracies aim to regulate every possible event and provide an appeal process; when appeals reveal new problems, new regulations are created to address them.

Analysis: The argument concludes that the system will expand 'ever-expanding,' which is a very strong claim. For this to be true, the bureaucracy must never run out of new problems to encounter. If there were a finite number of problems in the universe, the regulations would eventually stop growing once everything was covered. Therefore, the argument requires the assumption that new, unanticipated problems will continue to arise indefinitely.