Poverty is a result of intangible things - greed, injustice, war, exploitation… Government policy cannot eliminate these intangible things. But it can help to alleviate them, if the government itself is lawful and just. The issue that we face today is that the government EMBODIES all of the above (greed, injustice, war, exploitation) to the extreme. We’re not just a few “policy” tweaks away from improving the condition of poverty. We have a systemic problem.