Oh... and #6) There are political positions which are mainly the products of personal psychological backgrounds, instead of reasoned analysis. This makes it harder to answer Donuel's questions in detail.
Some conservatives & 'libertarians' are just people who *don't like being told what to do*. This manifests itself as rationalizations involving positions against paying takes and 'regulation' of business practices...etc. Some people have no real idea why they resist regulation... they just react and try to invent a "slogan" later to justify it.

What America would look like if knee-jerk conservatives were totally enabled by pragmatic, opportunistic conservatives is....ummmm... not pleasant for us 'sensible types'.