Yes that seems to standard practice in modern government. Impose a series of ineffective rules that do more harm on the public than helps them, and when it fai

Yes that seems to standard practice in modern government. Impose a series of ineffective rules that do more harm on the public than helps them, and when it fails just invent new ones without considering why the last one failed. And most importantly don't get rid of the previous rules, just let them stick around a decade after it's been apparent they were ineffective.