<If conservatives are so charitable why are workers compensation laws needed? Why must there be regulations regarding the amount of arsenic allowed in drinking water?

Good question. A business attempting to attract competent personnel would offer compensation on its own. Of course, there's no political power to be had from this course. And your statement of course assumes that all businesses are now and have forever been owned and run by Republicans.

As for drinking water, if it was privately provided in a competitive for-profit venue, the companies would be climbing over each other to prove that their water had fewer contaminants than the competitors. Note the success of bottled-water industries.

But wait. Almost all tap water is provided by government-owned and/or controlled utilities, which permit no competition. So given that the benevolent government provides the water, why MUST there be regulations on arsenic in drinking water? You tell me.

For the record, laws are needed to protect citizens against force and fraud, and I have never advocated lawlessness.