Facilitating planning and the realization of reasonable expectations

Examples of facilitation of planning are often seen on the local level: laws about when individuals can take their trash to the curb, recycling, and acceptable noise limits create a more positive community environments through the setting of reasonable expectations. Without such formal standards, communities would be far more chaotic and setting goals and priorities for the community would prove difficult.

Budgeting deadlines set into law, requiring the allocation of resources to schools and government agencies, and requirements that states undertake such actions as balance their budgets all are intended to make the running of government...

While government regulation is often presented as the enemy of competition, without some regulation industries could easily evolve into monopolies, and be able to charge exorbitantly high prices of the consumer. Some industries with very high barriers to entry tend to become monopolistic, and unless government 'breaks up' monopolies or regulates consumer pricing, free, fair, and consumer-friendly competition is smothered rather than facilitated in the absence of strong enforcement of commercial laws.