I found this example of a fixes that fail structure as part of an evening news story a few years ago.
The Canadian Government was facing a tax gap
due to the difference between their desired tax revenue
and their current tax revenue. Their solution
to this situation was to increase cigarette tax
with the intent of increasing current tax revenue.
As it turned out current tax revenue actually
declined.
It seems the increase in cigarette tax was enough
so Canadian cigarettes were more expensive than American cigarettes.
This fostered the development of a smuggling industry
between the US and Canada. This reduced the sale of taxed cigarettes
thus reducing the current tax revenue. When asked
why they didn't police the smugglers the border police commented
that they were carrying hand guns while the smugglers were carrying
machine guns.
When the situation was understood and the cigarette tax
reduced so Canadian cigarettes cost less than American cigarettes
the smuggling industry died of its own
accord within 5 days.