It's like when the government tries to address an oversupply of luxury apartments by renting them at full price and re-renting them at subsidized rates to consu

It's like when the government tries to address an oversupply of luxury apartments by renting them at full price and re-renting them at subsidized rates to consumers. I forget where this happened, but it was covered on Marketplace a few months ago. That "solution" is objectively worse than either the extreme libertarian position or the socialist position (though there are economically sensible positions between, this just doesn't happen to be one). It preserves artificially high demand for these luxury apartments, costs taxpayers a ton of money, and around the waste-cycle we go.