Go to a store in your community.

a. Ask what limitations the owners faced in starting their business.

b. Were these limitations necessary?

c. Should there have been more or fewer limitations?

d. Under what heading of reasons for government intervention would you put each of the limitations?

e. Ask what kinds of taxes the business pays and what benefits it believes it gets for those taxes.

f. Is it satisfied with the existing situation? Why? What would it change?