Unless check-mated by a vigilant citizenry, government tends to grow in size, power, and reach. And it acts more and more like the criminals it was supposed to protect its citizens from in the first place. Click to find out where this trend could lead. The more power we give to government to tax, regulate, and control us, the less freedom we have. And the more power is given to government, the more it wants and the more it usurps.
Controls beget more controls.
Regulations tend to create side effects which are then seized upon as excuses for still more regulations, and so on. Government meddling spreads until we wake up living in a country run by a government which has more in common with Nazi Germany or even Soviet Russia than it does with the original American Republic.