What Should be Done by Governments?

Over the history of this country, business owners and managers have already asked and gotten government (local, state and federal) to do the following: print money, control monetary supply, set interest rates; establish laws and maintain courts that enforce contracts and protect property rights, patent rights, copyrights, trademark rights; build and maintain highways, roads, bridges, harbors, airports; provide police protection, provide fire protection, incarcerate or otherwise contain persons who violate property laws (theft, embezzlement), provide military protection outside of U.S. boundaries and during national disasters; provide flood insurance, disaster relief; establish and enforce standardized weights and measurements; do research and development of new technologies that can create new products; develop and maintain space rocket/shuttle services necessary to create and maintain satellites for telecommunications; provide basic education to produce a work force that can read, write and do basic mathematics. Which of these things should government continue to do? Which should government stop doing? How should we pay for the cost of doing these things?

What are other things [aside from what government does to promote business profit] that you as a citizen, want government to do? What do you want your local government to do? What do you want your state government to do? What do you want your federal government to do? How should we pay for the things that you want government to do for you?