Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't nanny tell you what to do?
...small government gives you big freedoms.
Free peoples who were once willing to give their lives for liberty can be persuaded very quickly to relinquish their liberties for a aquiet life.
When governments annex a huge chunk of the economy, they also annex a huge chunk of individual liberty. You fundamentally change the relationship between the citizen and the state into something closer to that of a junkie and pusher - and you make it very difficult ever to change back.