RE: Why does the government hate poor people?

Ah Government...
I think that you should not talk about Government as some independent entity globally equal and similar in organization to each-other.
Governments are services of the corporations and businesses. They operate through the people on the position of the power specially Governments.
If you put things into the right perspective everything makes more sense. Terms like Government are very abstract and in that sense they create mental buffer around the understanding. People are falling into the mental trap of simplification of subjective observable reality