"But who would pick the cotton?"

Their claims are clearly NOT true given that every area of life in which govt gets involved things end up horribly corrupt & distorted. Govt is always the cause of societal collapse. When the collapse comes, the richest people are always politicians & the politically connected. If govt created society then it would have to fall apart first & society would follow. Instead society falls apart before govts end because govt is the deadly parasite that grows at the expense of everything else.