Gotta do things that make something worse under the guise of attempting to curb said bad thing. When it fails, as intended, you can say 'we tried so hard and it's having no impact we must go bigger' and then you get support for something absurd an draconian. That will fail because most of the resources put towards combating it will be embezzled by the oligarchs which will then require an even more absurd an draconian policy. Rinse and repeat forever until you're paying 99% of every dollar you make forever.