Ah, yes, the old argumentum ad utopium. "Your (non-authoritarian) idea must produce utopia, if it falls short, then the default is my (authoritarian) solution, which needs to pass no tests."

Politicians love using this fallacy because people seem to fall for it easily and it funnels power and influence right into their laps. If a little old lady in Cincinatti gets scammed, why, raise the alarums, marshal the forces, create an agency, put bureaucrats to work, find some culprits, put them in jail for a while, pat ourselves on the back, make speeches, get elected again next time.

Never mind that the effort has cost the taxpayers a lot of money and has actually enhanced the playing field for the scammers (as I described earlier). It gave power to the politician, some people with mediocre abilities found new, good paying jobs in a bureaucracy, some cops got pulled off dangerous duty catching armed criminals and got reassigned to work on safe, non-violent cases. It's a win-win-win!

Oh, except for the taxpayer who quietly just took another small hit. And will keep taking more and more small hits as the process continues because the problem keeps getting worse as more and more people become gullible, act stupidly, and ask to be "protected" by their nannies, The Government.