Answer:
<em>Maintaining a legal and social framework, maintaining competition, providing public goods and services, redistributing income, correcting for externalities, and ensuring stability.</em>
Explanation:
<em>Maintaining a legal and social framework- creating laws and regulating trade, FDA, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve</em>
<em>Maintaining competition- antitrust laws, regulating natural monopolies</em>
<em>Providing public goods and services- national defense, sewer systems, basic radio and television, national parks, and emergency warning systems</em>
<em>Redistributing income- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid</em>
<em>Correcting for externalities- taxing carbon emissions, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Environmental Protection Agency</em>
<em>Ensuring stability- Federal Reserve System</em>
