People hatr it because the government is more often than not quite big bloated, incompetent and corrupt. What they less often see is that much of that structure

People hatr it because the government is more often than not quite big bloated, incompetent and corrupt. What they less often see is that much of that structure arises from the misaligned incentives like the practical necessities of machine politics when government workers aren't well compensated directly vs the power they weild and direct scrutiny on their actions, and the patronage networks that arise as a result of that environment. Teachers, Police, IRS, social services, EPA, wtc all suffer from this.