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If the gub’mint simply went back to its corner (and we had a Judeo-Christian culture) it would fall on the people to provide for one another. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if people are not doing that today, then they’re blind, wicked or stupid. Care for one another is as small as cooking a little extra for the elderly or shut-in down the block or across the road. Bringing people extra garden produce. Taking somebody to town for an appointment. Noting the grief, needs and lonliness of those around you and acting on those needs. Giving money where your conscience leads. Etc., etc., etc.

Hence the Puritan belief that (in the image of the cross) We have a direct vertical connection to God himself but also a horizontal connection to the community. This however, is not based on the collective but on the individual. i.e. My connection to my community does not allow them to reach into my pocket to serve a need I must be inwardly directed by the vertical Godly influence to do so willingly otherwise, the taxing authority is in effect taking the role of God by forcing benevolence. That is the real compassionate Conservatism.