A business model would benefit government greatly. I work in government and as the government gets bigger the less efficient it becomes.
well, i work in business and it's the most lollably mumped up and inefficient thing you can imagine. i won't argue that gov't is better, but i'd like to see the people always claiming that gov't is worse offer some evidence for once.
Does the national debt count as evidence? Not that the debt itself is some damning thing, but I think it at least shows evidence that the government isn't being run by people who are all that concerned with the state's bottom line.
More like the deficit than the debt necessarily, though deficit leads to debts. I would agree that there are plenty of excess bureaucracies and bloat in government that needs to cut and reduced. That being said the inability to raise taxes, or make it more efficient to get taxes from corporations and the wealthy has starved and fed and strangleholded the government's ability raise the funds to pay for things. I think the idea of running the government like a business in theory sounds good, and there are major goals of doing so that I think can work and a worthy of striving for (balanced budget, less waste, more efficiency) but in practice it's dogged by politics and the whims of voters. Not only that if you argue from the point it's to make a profit, well, the profit should be in people's happiness and the shareholders are the citizens, who ultimately are footing the bills.
Also, it just depends who you are most comfortable with dealing with the issues at hand. Just because you unbloat government, you might solve the problems of government inefficiencies but the roles and responsibilities that were being performed by the government go elsewhere, they don't just go away. Who picks up the slack?
