Almost any government program winds up being a dog's breakfast of competing interests, traded votes, and ideas from elected officials who would not know a law of economics if you shoved it up their noses. Either party.

As another example: I am, in principle, for free trade, and supported NAFTA*, but any free trade agreement that's more than about three pages long and you're already asking for trouble.

The Constitution of the United States spelled out how to run a society in only a few pages. The "interpretations" would fill a wall of bookshelves.

*One of the few things I give Clinton real credit for.