If government programs where judged by their results and not their intention I would have more faith in trying things via government
But in reality government programs are only ever judged by their intentions, never their results, and if anyone attempts to apply some kind of ROI metric to them the inevitable retort is "we just did not spend enough tax payer money for it to be effective" or "evil rich people lobbied for a loop hole that is just close it then we would have utopia" but of course that utopia never comes
