Prerogatives of control over citizens....

...big government compared with the dreaded private sector.
Syndromic alt lefties actually refuse to see the huge differences here. Examples are many. I'll merely mention a few for starters.
In health care, principally from the ethically stipulated subfields of geriatric and transplant medicine, there is a money saving movement, principally among supporters of the unafordable health noncare act, to deny treatments to certain groups of individuals. Overweight and in terminal heart failure? Like your beer and are in terminal stages of liver failure? Much easier to prevail for life saving transplants over private insurance than the biiiig baaaad government. Many more clinical examples, but at least under private systems, the appeal process is much more accessible and extensive.The courts and marketing forces can make companies take notice. Big government could care less. "Too old" for many other interventions?Conscription of your daughters and sons anyone? Pols decide.
Government insinuating it's power between clinicians and their charges. Nuff said.
And the whole concept of eminent domain is a cautionary tale. Your municipality wants your home destroyed for a new park or highway? Or a residential development funded by connected (lobbyists) pols. By fiat, and a quick vote, your home/farm/business are toast, unless the expropriators are private.
Of course, the worst examples come from governments of the one party, fascist dictator States, as with Commie China, Cuba, and the lot. Bridges to nowhere, unoccupied enormous apartment blocks,--- all by dispossessing the land of rural multigenerational farmers. But don't just take my words for it.
Just another of many valid arguments to limit big government to having power over the smallest reasonable tiny list of activities. The potentials for corruption and abuses of power are legion.
I really think those suffering from TD-HD Syndromes get it, but the levels of denial and other obsessive pathologies keep the awareness under tight wraps. VERY tight.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.