Peng Pai-hsien, a Democratic Progressive Party legislator well-known for his financial expertise, states that "the big projects push aside the medium-sized ones, and the medium-sized ones cut out the small ones." The consumption of a huge portion of the budget by large projects can create many anomalies.
以財經專業形象著稱的民進黨立委彭百顯也指出，「大的砍小的，小的再砍更小的」，預算被大型工程悍然瓜分的結果，可能造成各種奇特現象。