Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Its not a question of helping the citizens, its HOW BEST to help the citizens. Capitalists believe that government helps the most when it tries to do the least, and thereby imposing the least drag on the economy.
As one goes down the spectrum away from capitalism toward socialism, different people want to stop at different points along the way. The danger, as I see it, is government imposing too much burden on business that the kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Now, where I vary with some purer capitalists, is that I want business to cover the full cost of their production---the cost of remediating the environment, the cost of restoring Larry's land to its former state, etc.