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It goes along with writing new laws that criminalize groups of people due to circumstances that are often beyond their control. New "social policy" defines circumstances to be criminalized and then does whatever is needed to force people into those circumstances and keep them from getting out. They build up a system of 10s of thousands of people who become dependent on maintaining the policy for their daily bread, who then continue to lobby to maintain the policy and push for more funding. Once they've force a huge number of people into their unnecessary system, they start charging them for the "service."

What I've written about the most is the child support enforcement system. Compliance with child support orders has actually dropped since the huge, expensive enforcement system began. Anyone who looks at the stats historically in an intelligent way sees that compliance rate is tied to the economy / unemployment, just like defaults on car loans, houses, and anything else. But the fed. set up a system that rewards states financially based on the amount of child support forced through the enforcement system. So states set out to force as many good payers as possible to pay through their systems, and arbitrarily increased award amounts to get more money flowing through. They also started assigning paternity by default and won't let men out of child support payments after they've proven through DNA tests that they are not the fathers.

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