by John Stossel Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs.
Both had good intentions, but their 'wars' do more harm than good.
I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty.
At the time I was a naive Princeton student who believed my professors when they said, 'It's wrong that in this rich country, people are poor, so go…