Jeff Jacoby How government makes things worse Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / March 9, 2008 WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms t