Your problem is that none of your reciprocal questions has been actually tested — the closest you can get is to look at what happened *before* any regulations existed, since we’ve never really had any mass government deregulation (Regan had a good start, but only a partial one), and we’ve never removed all government assistance programs.
But of course if we actually did those tests, and it turned out I was wrong, I would change my mind. Would you be willing to actually do those things, in order to test my conjecture, and falsify me?
I think your answers are quite similar to the justifications that an astrologist would make in order to wave away failed predictions. My bet is that *any* failure of your intentions with government regulations and programs would simply be an “acceptable loss”, even if the losses greatly outnumbered the successes. You, like an astrologist, could make a single prediction about someone born under the aegis of Jupiter, and if it was right, you’d use that as rationale to justify every prediction you’ll ever make again.
