HOW GOVERNMENT CAUSES HATE

Many of the so-called "hate crimes" are actually spawned by government actions against individuals. Here are the wrongs government does to people that makes them mad enough to strike out, and why they cause hate crimes:

PART ONE: DAILY OPPRESSION

People are mad because government is taking over control of every aspect of their daily lives:

1. Lack of enough facilities for travel: This is the biggest cause of anger there is. High-minded government officials value "the environment" and social programs over the basic needs of the people they are supposed to be serving. Lack of highway capacity and parking space causes people to battle over the available facilities. Shootings and deliberate rammings result. Mass transit is not the answer, because it can't possibly serve the needs of even a small portion of the daily travelers. A late bus is no excuse to an early boss. Zoning is one of the biggest causes of this problem, because it separates factories and the homes of workers by miles.
2. Using fear to control people: Officials, and especially candidates, use scare tactics and false scapegoats to frighten people into giving up their rights. Here are some famous examples of this trickery:
   • The "energy crisis" in the 1970s was caused by government price controls intended to help the poor afford fuel. It made fuel unavailable instead. When the regulations were repealed, the crisis disappeared. Government blamed consumption and Arabs instead. Their solution: more government! They created a bloated energy department to "deal" with the problem.
   • Candidates accuse opponents of trying to destroy Social Security or Medicare, when they really are trying to save them from bankruptcy.
   • Much of the environmental policy that robs us of jobs and rights is based on scare talk instead of sound science.
   Many people become very angry with government when they learn the truth.
3. Affirmative Action: This may be great for the minorities who get the jobs, but for the white male working his way up through the ranks, it's devastating. To make a government-imposed quota, the company promotes someone less qualified than he is to be his supervisor. Then he is laid off, even though he has more seniority, so the company does not fall out of compliance. Now he can't find work, due to the combined effects of Affirmative Action and the minimum wage. This causes many to join white-supremacy groups, when they should be voting against the legislators that push these programs. To add insult to injury, the union he belongs to contributes part of his union dues to those politicians, and urges him to support the very people who took his job away.
4. Government control of education: What easier way is there to mold minds to believe what the current administration favors than to drill it into childrens' heads in government-regulated schools? Priorities are given to aesthetic skills instead of employable skills, creating an angry group of unemployable young adults. The schools are used to drill children into favoring the politics of the party in power. Finally, it is a way to force education in the government-sponsored religion of Secular Humanism (where government is the deity) on children whose parents are unable to afford private school. Pupils who obey the moral values of their parents instead of the teacher's Humanist values are penalized. No wonder people like Timothy McVeigh go over the edge and set bombs!
5. Being "good parents of society" for ulterior ends: Government officials think of themselves as the parents of a whole population of little children. They treat people like little children, watching constantly so they don't get hurt. Here are examples of their condescending attitudes:
   • Allowing only government officials to have weapons. This is invitation to tyranny. The penalty for using weapons for crime should be increased instead.
   • Setting speed limits so low that people feel stupid for obeying them.
   • Making laws that are impossible to obey. An example is requiring a driver to make a distance measurement (in feet) from a moving vehicle.
   • Police think their "duty" is to pry out people who want to live in isolation.
   • Government prohibits dangerous items to protect us from ourselves.
   • They prohibit risking one's own life. (Acts dangerous to other uninvolved persons are justified prohibitions, but protecting people from their own folly is totally unnecessary).
   • Requiring every product to be super-safe, driving up the price of the product, and reducing its utility. (Product safety belongs in tort courts, not government regulations. And people who misuse products should have to live with the results of their stupidity.)
   • They want total control, so they can quickly pounce before somebody gets hurt.
   • They make you get their permission to build anything.
   • Any dispute must be quickly quashed by police.
   • If anyone gets a little bruise from a scuffle, everyone else at the scene goes to jail.
   • They consider parental discipline to be child abuse.
   • They give sexual immorality priority over moral values.
   • Government controls marriage and child custody, which are really religious issues.
   • Aesthetics and beauty are more important to them than private property rights.
   • When they banned religion from public schools, they didn't remove Atheism, Environmentalism, Statism, Darwinism, or Secular Humanism.
   • They tell people what foods "might be bad" for them.
   • Interfering with religious activities that do not endanger the lives of others.
   • Monitoring the everyday lives of people.
   • Requiring offensive subjects to be taught in school. Parents should decide what their children are taught.
   • Requiring that intimate details of business be told to government.
   • Keeping records on honest people. Government monitors people by keeping track of where they live and work. Making law enforcement easier is no excuse for this.
   • Licensing businesses to prevent fraud and collect taxes easier.
   • Using weights and measures to set limits causes unwitting violations when measuring equipment is unavailable, defective, or impractical to use.
   • Unenforceable laws.
   • Prohibiting the copying of software or recordings is totally unenforceable, and is a restriction on knowledge, which should not be restricted.
   • Discriminatory laws specify certain people or firms.
   • Trying to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
   • So many laws that nobody can know all of them, making unwitting lawbreakers of all.
   • Too often, government secrecy is used to cover criminal activity by agents.
   • Obsolete laws that stay on the books.
   • They allow sport stars and diplomats to get away with lawbreaking.
   • Any nut with enough money can get special rights passed into law.
   • Selective enforcement of traffic laws usurps legislative powers.
   • Not enforcing harder to enforce laws.
   • Inadequate following distance in traffic is neglected by police, but causes many accidents.
   • No enforcement where the judge will not convict.
   • Enforcement is sometimes based on what will bring in the most revenue in fines.
   • Citizens aren't trusted as witnesses to traffic violations.
   • Criminal justice wastes much effort trying to rehabilitate, instead of punishing.
   • They try to "prevent" crime by harassing hones people for creating "potential crime."
   • Legislators play around with the number of days in the school year, the size of classes, and other idiotic "solutions," instead of tackling the problem of inadequate teachers, who value their union "rights" more than the education rights of children.
   • Cities exercise zoning control over land adjacent to the city, even though the owners of that land have no representation in city government.
   It's enough to make someone mad enough to want to bash some "sense" into the heads of legislators with a sledgehammer (attempts to shoot legislators will fail, because the bullets will just go through the holes in their heads).
6. Too much judicial power: When a judge can insert a personal political belief into the law, without any vote by a legislature or an executive's signature, something is very wrong. "Separation of Church and State" is one such personal belief, taken directly from the Communist Manifesto. Judges are also targeting Christians, for their own political reasons. Judges are now using the excuse that "government must be allowed to operate" to remove our civil rights.
7. Self centered legislators: They hold elaborate public hearings. After the hearings, instead of listening to what the people had to say, they stick with their original plans.
8. Using eminent domain to regulate: When a business is doing something legal that legislators don't like, they take the property of that business with eminent domain to stop it.

PART TWO: MONETARY OPPRESSION

People are mad because their taxes and bills are going up, and their paychecks buy less and less. Here are the reasons why:

1. They tax low-income people: Revenue is king to the legislators and bureaucrats, since people living on minimum wage are still pouring money into income, sales, and property taxes. This alone shows how much government really cares for the poor. Think about these points:
   • Is revenue more important than helping the poor?
   • Sales tax is charged on necessities.
   • Property tax prevents low-income home ownership.
   • Property tax greatly raises rent payments.
   Then see my page on Fair Taxation
2. Taxes are too high: Government takes 72 percent of the average personal income, because all business taxes are passed onto consumers. This makes people have to work much harder to make ends meet. Government is living in luxury off the backs of the people.
3. Government officials are overpaid: The salaries of government employees, especially legislators, executives, and judges, are outrageously high. Meanwhile people who do more work than they do get minimum wage. Voters, not legislators, should set salaries.
4. Minimum wage throws people out of work: A raise in the standard of living seems to be good -- for those workers who get to enjoy it. The rest lose their jobs because their jobs aren't worth the new wage rate, or their employers can't afford to pay that many employees at that rate. This leaves a lot of angry unemployed people, and they tend to blame the business instead of the government regulation that caused the problem.
   More points to ponder:
   • How can employers magically produce new money to pay minimum wage increases?
   • Minimum wage really produces minimum income tax revenue for government.
   • It then causes inflation, until all effects of the wage control are inflated away.
5. Duties on imported products: These are intended to unfairly protect union wages and overtaxed businesses from competition in the free market. It's another cause of high prices, and in the long run, the nation that imposes the duties loses economically.
6. Revenue comes first: Government sometimes designs its laws to increase revenue at the expense of the outward intent of passing the law. Here are some prime examples of revenue-comes-first governing:
   • Tax evaders get longer prison sentences than murderers.
   • Instead of making the road safer for higher speeds, they leave the danger in so they can collect more revenue from traffic tickets.
   • Decisions of zoning and permitted land use are made with the intent of discouraging land uses that cannot be taxed.
   • Government services that people are required to use (such as trash removal) have user fees, while unessential services are free, paid for by tax money.
   • "Franchise fees" are added onto utility bills, because people can't avoid using the utilities.
   • Only a single utility of each kind is allowed in each area, so government can control prices and add extra taxes on the monopolies so created.
   • Radio spectrum space is sold to the highest bidder. Some valid uses have no bidder to sell to, and will be lost.
   • Coveting the donations people make to private charities and religious institutions.
   • Coveting business profit (which is the sole reason any business exists).
   • City officials act like they own all of the land within the city, and that they collect property tax as rent for the use of it by the real owners.
7. Taxing business: Consumers really pay, whether the business raises prices, reduces wages, or is totally driven out of business.
8. Programs to create jobs: They don't work. Government can't create jobs through economic policy. For every 100 jobs government "creates," 110 jobs are lost elsewhere due to the higher taxes needed to create the jobs. An exception occurs when government cuts taxes, builds better roads, or reduces regulation. These do not cause job losses elsewhere.
9. Coveting business profit: Remember this rule:

   Without profit, there is no reason to hire.

10. Changing the rules in the middle of the game: People make long-term decisions based on the existing rules. Then government changes the regulations, causing these people to lose money or property. Here are some examples:
    • People bought land in Florida as an investment, since it was a prime area for a future resort. Environmental regulations suddenly made it worthless, and the government offer to purchase was nowhere near what they paid to buy it.
    • The Savings and Loan scandal was really caused by banning tax-free investments. This caused a "run" on the savings and loan companies that offered these now-useless bonds.
    • All of the video equipment and tapes you now have will be obsolete in 2007, when by law the NTSC TV system must end.
11. Ignoring costs of regulations: They pass fancy rules businesses and homeowners have to follow, but do not consider the costs they make people absorb. These costs are the causes of business failures, layoffs, and bankruptcies. Some people have to cheat on the rules to survive. Many businesses to flee the country and its wacky regulations, taking their jobs with them.
12. Property tax: This requires people to have monetary incomes much larger than they would otherwise need, just to keep their houses. It raises the amount social service agencies spend on rent, and it discriminates against the poor and retired. It is the primary cause of homelessness. It is not a "tax for the rich" as politicians claim. The tenant of any rental unit pays the entire property tax on that unit in the rent payments (if not, the unit would be demolished or sold).
13. Income tax: This requires people who do odd jobs and those who employ others to keep voluminous records. Many go on public assistance because they have problems working under a boss, and they can't do the paperwork for a sole proprietorship. It is not a "tax for the rich" as politicians claim, especially when those on minimum wage are paying income taxes.
14. Capital gains tax: This is not a "tax for the rich" as politicians claim, since anyone selling a house can have a capital gain. What is really bad is that the selling price can increase due to inflation, forcing the seller to pay capital gain tax for a gain he did not realize (the money changed value, not the house).
15. Penalizing people for working: Government finds many ways to penalize people for working: Parking fees and parking meters penalize people who live far from their jobs. There is never enough space for parking. Income taxes penalize working, while welfare rewards idleness.
16. Forcing changes in standards on consumers: HDTV will require everyone to replace TV sets, VCRs, and video tapes. Doing this to "create jobs" is a false economy, and also creates a solid waste problem as the old equipment is thrown out.
17. Using tax revenue for nice, but unnecessary purposes: Government steals money from hard working people, and then wastes it on the whims of legislators. This is slap in the face of the hard-working honest taxpayer. These include professional sports arenas, arts, music programs, dramas, entertainments, convention centers, auditoriums, flower beds, and other nonessential government expenditures. These should be funded by voluntary donations from people favoring these purposes, or private enterprise could provide these functions if there is a demand for them.
18. Charging for justice: When government charges for justice, criminals get away with crime while innocent people are punished. Here are some serious questions to ask:
    • Do the well to do deserve justice more than the poor?
    • When someone is unjustly accused, should he lose money even though he is cleared? No matter what the legal outcome is, he has to pay the lawyer.
    • Should it cost more than the value of stolen property to get it back?
    • Should the innocent party have to pay court costs?
    • Should lawyers be allowed to have a union, when they charge so much anyway?
    This is another example of the "me first" government. If laws were written so anyone could understand them, the costs would be much lower. The person really at fault, including the false accuser or the police officer who makes a mistake, should pay all of the costs, including the legal fees of the innocent party so wronged. The innocent party wrongly accused should not have to sue to recover these damages.
19. Government gets first pick in bankruptcies and estates: The "me first" attitude of government is a hardship, both monetarily and psychologically, on those who have already suffered a loss. Other parties who were owed money by the bankrupt or deceased lose out because "government comes first." Many government officials seem to believe that inheritance is "unfair" because they covet if for their pet programs.

PART THREE: POLITICAL OPPRESSION

Government takes choices away from voters in elections, or scares voters into voting the way government wants them to.

1. Politicians exploit unfair election methods: The "vote for only one" election system has biases in it that allow politicians to control the outcome of races:
   • Voters are not allowed to say "YES" to more than one choice in a race.
   • Voters are not allowed to say "NO" to a choice unless there are only two choices.
   • Voting "NO" on all choices is counted the same as not voting at all.
   • There is a bias toward the choice most different from the others when more than two choices are presented.
   • Requiring signatures for third parties to get on ballots disenfranchises voters.
   • Requiring registration several weeks in advance can disenfranchise voters.
   • A politician can buy the election by paying a stooge to run on a third party with a platform exactly like that of his opponent.
   See my fair elections page for a solution.
2. Conscription to fill the military: This is nothing but a cheap way to save money through substandard military pay. Governments that force people to defend them are not worth saving. In addition, they can never fully count on or trust the conscriptees. If a fair government needs defending, there will be all too many volunteers to do it.
3. Too many legislators are lawyers: They purposely design the law so more people need the services of their profession.
4. All government employees want a bigger government: Their motive is to ensure their own continued employment.
5. Too many levels of government: How many? Right now, I have to deal with these: UN, Federal, State, Conservancy District, Solid Waste District, County, Library District, Parks District, School District, City, Township, and Precinct. Each has taxing authority, but not all of them have elected officials. How about reducing this to three: Federal, State, and County? The rest are unnecessary duplications, or items that should not be part government at all.
6. Taking private property for public use: Transportation and water supply are the only uses that require specific plots of land. Government uses this ploy to get property cheaper than it can get it on the market. In addition, government sometimes takes property to unfairly drive out a business, or to harass opponents. In addition:
   • Zoning is taking property rights without compensation.
   • Government keeps property seized for use by criminals for crime. If there is an innocent owner of the property, it should be returned to that owner.
   • Government destroys seized weapons. This destroys economic value, affecting the entire economy. The weapons should be sold instead.
   • Revenue from seized property can cause conflicts of interest. The money raised by selling seized property must not be used to increase the budget of any agency that can seize property.
7. Government employees get special privileges: This is unequal protection under the law. Police have too much power to destroy property. Without citizen's arrest, police can decide what laws are to be enforced and what laws are ignored, defeating the power of the legislature. Police are frequently observed breaking traffic laws. Bureaucrats also have too much power to disrupt the lives of others. Officials should have no powers that ordinary people can't exercise.
8. Suppressing religion: Government is actively trying to discourage the practice of religion. Too many government officials want to be worshiped in place of God. Removing religion from schools favors Atheism and Secular Humanism, religions with no organized practice or doctrine. Government sometimes promotes or aids activities offensive to some religions:
   • Homosexuality is offensive to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
   • Abortion is offensive to many religions.
   • Many religions have teachings that are incompatible with evolution.
   • The practices of many environmental movements are based on ancient Celtic religions. Government is forcing these beliefs onto many, and teaching them to school children.
   Such practices caused the revolts at Waco Texas, Oklahoma City, and Wounded Knee.
9. Citizenship and identification requirements: When governments control who can be citizens of their country, and who can be inside the borders of the country, that is the ultimate oppression. There should be no such thing as a citizen. Policing borders for any purpose except to repel invasion is an abuse of government power.
   Some Christian religions prohibit identification numbers. Required identification numbers violate the religious beliefs of individuals in these religions.
10. Daylight-saving time: They steal an hour from us for April Fools, and give it back for a Halloween prank. This time shift actually causes disturbances in the brains of sensitive individuals. More time and resources are wasted setting clocks, curing headaches, and repairing cars wrecked when people not used to darkness or bright sun suddenly are driving in new conditions. Some industrial process systems cannot be programmed correctly if the clock controlling them is advanced and retarded twice a year. It doesn't even save energy, it wastes it, when people come home from work an hour early and turn up air conditioners an hour earlier.
11. Pure stupidity is told to us as fact They abuse statistics and conjure up false science to fool us. Here are some of their worst:
    • Reporting useless values.
    • Slanting the calculation of economic values to favor a viewpoint.
    • Using the wrong statistical methods.
    • Selecting the wrong population in the study.
    • Reporting impossible accuracy in figures.
    • Failure to study control cases (those without the item of interest).
    • Doctoring charts to make changes look larger or smaller than they are.
    • Inverting scales to make the careless think the change went the other way.
    • Using length instead of area for comparative symbols.
    • Bureaucrats with statistics ready (and handy), to show the "disaster" that cutting their budget will cause.
    • Reporting economic statistics changes the economy.
    • Anybody can prove anything with statistics given enough cases to weed through.
12. A single budget bill This violates constitutional protections, because each house, and the executive, individually has the power to force an item to be in the budget. The original design required the approval of all three to spend money.

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