Governments are in the flimflam business.

Pared down to the bare essentials, governments can be very useful in passing and enforcing a small number of very basic laws.

These laws should be limited to policing those who would seek to aggress against others, or their property. Governments may also have a value in providing protection from invasion.

And that’s about it. Beyond that, the private sector can, and almost always does, do a better job at virtually everything else.