<p>I’m not sure I understand - how does protecting property rights “interfere” with the economy? Capitalism can only work when property rights <em>are</em> recognized! The Gilded Age is perhaps the worst example you could have picked to support your statist opinions - corruption, kickbacks, grafting - it was all the result of <em>too</em> close an association between government and business. Laissez Faire demands that there is no interference in the economy at all - protective tariffs, as was shown in the 1929 crash are just as damaging as any other restrictions set on commerce. Laissez Faire is also the only moral economic system available - because it recognizes the fact the value for value qua man is the only way man’s freedom and constitutional rights can be preserved. At the end of every interference in the economy by the government is a gun. At the end of every free trade between two individuals is a handshake. Which do you prefer?</p>