The U.S. Government Should Be Run Like A Business.

[excringency]

Well, in one respect that is. The purpose of a business is to turn a profit. The government has wrung most all it can from the poor and lower middle class in the form of taxes and reduction in services. So, if I were the CEO of the USA I would look elsewhere to increase our revenue stream. Like, oh I don't know, since corporations are "people," and people in the U.S. have to pay at least an Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), why don't we have an Alternative Minimum Corporate Tax (AMCT, I think I'll forward this idea to Grayson). No more record profits without contributing to tax revenues. I'm sure y'all can come up with many more ideas.

[DetlefK]

1. It should move to a country with cheaper workers???

Get rid of democracy?
Handle its finances via a mail-box on the Cayman-islands?
Sell it piecemeal, ruin it, steal the pensions and move on to the next country?

[PATRICK]

2. it would get back to the people

if they ran it into the ground- which seems a very common American business model made more profitable by the bought government. Instead of the serpent flag "Don't tread on me" it could be the snake devouring its own tail.

[NightWatcher]

3. Burned to the ground for the insurance money?

No way, it should be run as a country to provide for its citizens.