Interesting... FB would not let me add my own political view that it doesn't already know about. If it would have, I would have put "Leave-me-alone-itarian"....
I always ask, how did we survive and grow just fine 50 or 100 years ago with so much less government.
Its one thing for the government to try to protect us from granfalloons, but its quite another when it gets in the way between you and I doing reasonable things that we want to freely agree to do. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon)
For example: You paid taxes on the wages you earn. Give some of it to a waitress as a tip. You get no deduction, but she gets taxed again on the same money. Why? But it can be even worse: You might give no tip at all, but if the government decides on average waitresses receive 10% tips, and if they decide she doesn't report enough tips, they could impute an income to her that she never received from you, and demand taxes on it.
Sit in your living room working on your computer, and a nosy bureaucrat walking by, looks through your window, and decides to hassle you for doing a business in a residential zone. Why?
Go rent a tiny 150 sq ft office in a strip mall to put a desk, and some of your things, to have a quiet place to sit and work on your programs, never have any walkin traffic, and the city comes and demands $600 a year business license (more than a months rent.) Why? Ask them what you get in return, and after some thought, they might be honest and answer "A receipt."
Sometimes filing of the taxes can be enough of a hassle that you need to seek the help of a "professional". Sad to say, that professional may be tempted to rob you of an unfair amount of money to do an incompetent job of preparation. (Which raises another issue of why the preparation should be so blasted complicated that it requires a high priest to mediate the process....) But if you complain to the board that licenses the accountants, you will find they dont care about your plight nearly as much as they care about if he put his correct address on all their paperwork. You'll walk away with the distinct impression they exist more to protect the account from you, than the other way around.
Sorry, but many government permit processes are unnecessary exercises in gate-keeping to keep people out of the profession, not in actual protection of anyone. It really irks me that some people have to petition the government for permission to pursue a living.... Let the government offer a "certification", if it must, and let me choose whether I want someone "certified", or I just want to make my own choice of someone who hasn't gone through the government's process. Let the government sell me, and the providers, on why their certification is relevant.
The most important thing that governments do is to create "Rule-of-law" which from one sense means a predictability to the future, so that governments and individuals can make choices about what they will do in the future with some reliance on the fact that the "rug" will not be "pulled" out from under them by the government arbitrarily changing the rules.
Anyhow, always ask if we are depending on the government to do things that we ourselves should be responsible for. The tension is between letting the government do anything the constitution doesn't directly say that it shouldn't do, verses limiting government to do only the things the constitution explicitly gives it permission to do.