MY SURVEY FOR THOSE WHO SUPPORT BIG GOVERNMENT:

Dear [Insert name or organization here],

You are a:
[ ] Individual
[ ] Group of Individuals / Movement
[ ] Party
[ ] Bureaucracy
[ ] Ideology

Who is generally known as being one or more of the following politically:

[ ] Reasonably intelligent person who should know better
[ ] Libertarian
[ ] Leftist
[ ] Socialist
[ ] Marxist
[ ] Elitist
[ ] Communist
[ ] Islamofascist
[ ] Part of the PC police
[ ] Nihilist
[ ] Insane
[ ] Idiotic

Have (rightly or wrongly) perceived [insert grievance] to be a problem.

You Personally advocate a plan involving:
[ ] Propaganda
[ ] Big Government Bureaucracy
[ ] Big Government Legislative
[ ] Market Reform
[ ] Vigilante actions
[ ] Quitting
[ ] Doing nothing
[ ] Caving in to pressure

Your plan will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad Federal law was passed.)

[ ] They will be 'offended' anyway
[ ] It is unnecessary
[ ] It is hypocritical
[ ] It is impossible to implement
[ ] It will take an unrealistic amount of effort to implement
[ ] It will take an unrealistic amount of time to implement
[ ] It will take an unrealistic amount of resources to implement
[ ] It ignores reality, natural law, human nature, the laws of nature, or religion
[ ] It is out of touch with reality
[ ] It is sacrilegious
[ ] It is already in place
[ ] It is already in place, and failing
[ ] It has been tried before, and either failed, or been shown to be ineffective
[ ] It is an unrealistic plan that will never be tried
[ ] It is an unrealistic plan that, if tried, would not achieve the desired effects
[ ] It will needlessly undermine personal liberty
[ ] It will needlessly undermine economic liberty
[ ] As Hayek showed in 'Road to Serfdom', loses in economic liberty automatically lead to loses in personal liberty
[ ] It will set you on the road to an authoritarian dictatorship
[ ] The people responsible for your problem will use this plan to their advantage
[ ] Ordinary citizens would be / are needlessly affected by your plan
[ ] No one will be able to find those responsible, or collect the money
[ ] It is defenseless against brute force attacks
[ ] Your plan will stop the problem for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
[ ] Americans will not put up with it
[ ] America will not put up with it
[ ] The civilized world will not put up with it
[ ] Your own citizens / supporters will not put up with it
[ ] Business will not put up with it
[ ] The police will not put up with it
[ ] Requires too much cooperation from those responsible
[ ] Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
[ ] Most people don't agree that this is a problem
[ ] It will alienate more people (beyond your supporters) than it will convert
[ ] It will end up alienating even your own supporters
[ ] It lacks the support of many of those it is aimed to 'help'
[ ] You have been brainwashed
[ ] Your supporters have been brainwashed
[ ] Those responsible don't care about inconveniences caused by your plan
[ ] Those responsible will work around your plan
[ ] Those responsible will continue to do what they do regardless
[ ] Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business via your solution
[ ] Laws (incl. the Bill of Rights and Constitution) expressly prohibiting it
[ ] Lack of centrally controlling authority for the world
[ ] The world economy
[ ] Technological difficulties
[ ] Stupidity of some in society
[ ] Jurisdictional problems
[ ] Unpopularity of weird new taxes
[ ] Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money or power
[ ] Huge existing investment in existing infrastructure
[ ] Susceptibility of your solution to other problems down the track
[ ] Public not willing to undertake dangerous acts, sign away rights or significant inconvenience required to make your plan work
[ ] The problem is already far too entrenched
[ ] Ongoing innovation (for either good or evil)
[ ] Extreme profitability of activities you are trying to ban
[ ] The possibility of identity theft
[ ] Technically illiterate or incompetent politicians and bureaucrats
[ ] Corrupt or nepotist politicians and bureaucrats
[ ] Dishonesty on the part of you (or your supporters)
[ ] Dishonesty on the part of those responsible
[ ] Dishonesty on the part of government
[ ] Dishonesty on the part of citizens
[ ] It is premised on a flawed or revisionist history
[ ] It is premised on a flawed economic theory
[ ] It is premised on pseudoscience
[ ] It is premised on very controversial theory or theories
[ ] Costs that are incurred regardless
[ ] Distortion of the market

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

[ ] Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
[ ] Any plan forced on the public is unacceptable
[ ] It covers areas which should not be the subject of legislation
[ ] Blacklists suck
[ ] Whitelists suck
[ ] We don't want our essential Rights abridged
[ ] We aren't willing to live in a Fascist or Socialist state to solve your problem or implement your plan
[ ] Countermeasures should be as ethical as possible
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of essential infrastructure
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve mass murder
[ ] Countermeasures should not involve quitting
[ ] Why should we have to trust you with (more?) power?
[ ] Incompatibility with Western culture
[ ] Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
[ ] Your solution is cumbersome
[ ] I don't want the government reading my email
[ ] Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

There will be a backlash against your plan because most ordinary people, including many people who do not actively identify themselves as Conservatives or Libertarians, do not agree with you. Instead, many believe in / that (tick the boxes that specifically apply):
[ ] Traditional values
[ ] Family values
[ ] Freedom (including from Government)
[ ] Significant risk requires significant rewards
[ ] Religious morals
[ ] Social codes, ethics, and customs
[ ] An honest days work should be rewarded with an honest days pay, not a large Tax bill
[ ] Free markets build wealth

You are out of touch with these beliefs.

Your plan may also restrict the following essential rights and freedoms:
[ ] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
[ ] A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
[ ] No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[ ] The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[ ] No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
[ ] In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
[ ] In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
[ ] Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
[ ] The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[ ] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

[ ] Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
[ ] This is a stupid idea, and you're a fascist for suggesting it.
[ ] Nice try, ****! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!