Limited government comes at the cost of greater individual responsibility  where we the people have to bear more responsibility to provide for our own welfare, regulate our own behavior, make our own decisions and be willing and able to bear the responsibility for the consequences of our actions and decisions. Therefore, limited government is not very appealing to many of us and possibly hard for many politicians to advocate . The economic basis of basis of limited government is increased opportunities for all of us to make enough money to be the primary providers of our own welfare and the use of market based forces to make goods and services affordable rather than government regulations and assistance and so we need to elect political leaders who understand this.