What Form 843 Businesses 2011-2023

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has seen unprecedented support in the 2023 election with many of his backers hoping he'll run the United States like one of his many businesses the Republican nominee is far from the first politician to promote this idea but would it actually work should the u.s. be run like a business well on its face both businesses and governments should certainly strive to be more efficient accountable and transparent this is especially relevant in the face of widespread government inefficiency which is suggested to cost taxpayers in the billions and even trillions in Iraq between 6 and 12 billion dollars earmarked for reconstruction was misappropriated and long unaccounted for although some was later recovered so it certainly sounds nice to have someone with financial business experience to get a grip on spending right well the problem is that businesses and governments are not just different they seek fundamentally opposing goals in a nutshell businesses seek to create the maximum amount of profit for shareholders by any means necessary which can include layoffs inferior products and even outright bankruptcy in fact one of the ways Trump has gotten so rich is by strategically filing for bankruptcy in order to extract the maximum value out of his companies declaring bankruptcy on a government especially one as globally integral as the US would be disastrous on the other hand governments are specifically intended to benefit and represent people first and be sustainable or profitable second a government run like a business would be beholden to its shareholders at the expense of the consumer but both its shareholders and its consumers are the same pool of taxpayers this makes it much more difficult to balance the needs of shareholders and consumers in practice businesses that are entirely owned by...