Why Running Govt Like a Business Would Be a Disaster

The fact that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped two businessmen — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — to lead an advisory commission focused on streamlining government operations suggests that these efficiencies will come from making the government run more like a business. In 2017, when he was a White House adviser, Jared Kushner, who now runs a private equity firm, made a similar pitch that business thinking would help to “achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.” Read Full Article »