Another Voice: Government as business

Another Voice: Government as business

A long-standing Republican goal is to make government into a business, implying government should make a profit.  But the business ideal is about money, a concept relatively disconnected from reality, whereas the government ideal is about servicing the real needs of the larger society. For example, a half century ago the stock market closed at 821, while it recently closed at 43,589, 53 times greater.  Is the economy really worth that much more,…