Agree . Rule of law , scope of government regulations . You need courts , property rights , police , provision of public goods , a limited system of welfare , funding for students to account for positive externalities of education . Problem nowadays is that government has changed . Western states are evolving into huge transfer systems , enter markets in which there is no public good justification , limit expenditure on courts , infrastructure , provision of healthcare and regulation of health care billing and registration , healthcare insurance for basic limited cost procedures , etc etc etc . Nobody ' s happy with that , but we all sufficiently disagree with what to tackle first that those in power have no incentive to change things .