From /g/. If President of the US, what to do?

*Full audit of the Federal Reserve, and limit it's powers
*Bring back pre-1997 ban on prescription drug ads
*Get troops out of Japan and Europe
*Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act
*Decriminalize marijuana
*4 year terms for members of house
*Reform copyright laws to stop Disney and others from trying to
hold onto 80-year old cartoons
(25 year copyrights and 3 renewals.)
*Establish national standards for education, including programming

and science
*Put in a guest worker program
*Kill high speed rail initiative, money goes back to paying debts
*Create national medical schools
*End embargo on Cuba
*Stop steroid chasing in baseball
*Open up skilled worker visas
*Lower corporate tax to Germany's levels
*Cut subsidies to factory farms
*Cut subsidies to major oil companies
*Stop foreign aide to Israel
*Reform software patents
*Completely rebuild family courts
*Tax churches for land
*Greatly decrease prison terms for drug possession
*For those top earners, top 1%, they can name infrastructure projects built with their taxpayer dollars

I'd not concern myself overly with minimal government for the sake of minimal government; for starters, it will (by definition) be too small – and powerless – to stop overgrown corporations from taking over (and fagging up) the whole country. And, in the process, ending all of the freedom that the free market was supposed to be all about.

Realistically, a «free market» (as practised by free-market fundamentalists) is really nothing else than the economic version of Anarchism; It works great on paper, but in reality it only works until a well-armed warlord has arrived to establish his own personal private fiefdom. (which takes, on average, some five minutes) And so freedom dies, from its own openness.

So rather than minimal, I'd focus on intelligent and efficient. For starters, I'd replace the misconception of «free market» as «there is a corporate alternative therefore the gummint hasta back off», with a model more fit to keep people honest.

Something like a government-owned, government-run provider in the most important fields, as one of several alternatives for the people to choose from. Stuff like broadcasting, news-media, electricity, construction materials, etc. Focus those on good service and low price (e.g. little-to-no profit margin; these are not for-profit but mainly to keep the competitors honest). The important bit is to not try to take over the market but to provide a «bogeyman for the villain», to scare them straight.