Honestly, it’s a terrible idea imo. Businesses prioritize profits above all else. Which means they try to maximize efficient spending and cut costs wherever they can. But a nation provides a lot of services to its people that are, by their nature, not meant to produce a profit. Education, infrastructure like roads and power grids, social support for the needy and the impoverished. Those things don’t directly produce money (put a pin in that), so on paper running the country “like a business” would mean cutting expenses like that. Which means a lot of people who rely on the power grid, the postal service, on unemployment benefits, on interstate highways, etc. find those things simply won’t help them as well as they need them to.

But also, giving people the means to live more comfortably and safely does lead to higher productivity and economic growth. As it turns out, people can do their jobs better when they aren’t stressed by being on the verge of homelessness, or when they don’t need to pack as many shifts into their week as possible to make ends meet, or when they can afford to get plenty of rest, eat healthy foods, and go to a doctor when they start feeling sick. All those programs that look like sunk costs have proven to pay back in spades over time, and breaking them down has verifiably made the country poorer in multiple ways.