You only ever hear about the "bad" things government does. How about the protection from predatory practices by businesses already in the field? Do we really want to go back to the Standard Oil days, when it wasn't government that hampered business, but large companies that prevented new companies from forming and drove others out of business by shady practices? At least with government you can vote people out and change laws. No such luck when stuck in a minarchist libertarian "paradise".