Government

Can you run a government like a business?
Lets try to flesh this out a bit.

Whats the main objectives of business?
Profits.

How does the government make money?
Taxes

How do we increase the amount of money the government makes?
Either increase the population or increase the amount of money people make or increase taxes.
Notice the increase in taxes would most likely trigger a decrease in population, so we will consider a less complex relationship.

How do we increase the amount of money tax paying citizens make?
Create more opportunities for citizens. Small businesses should be easy to set up and maintain.
Personally, I'm against large businesses. I think small business models should be the backbone of any economy.
It encourages competition, innovation, creativity and opportunity for all.
Inefficiencies in the market will somehow be filled in naturally by other small businesses.
Ideally, every time there is a gap in the market, a small boutique with the necessary expertise will be created to fill it.

Long term is to have a highly regarded education system.
Teachers have to be professionals with certifications, retraining, paid well and not seem as menial labour.
Students are to be held accountable, academic research into training cognitive ability and develop skills will be given heavy grants and subsidies. Practical methods of their application will be encouraged.

What about industries that require large amounts of capital?
That is one of the shortcomings of the current plan. I open the forum for suggestions as to how to resolve this issue.

What about other issues that require the governments aid? eg. infrastructure, medical aid, etc.
Ideally the government will encourage more of these businesses to be run as regulated private enterprises, and that there will be a sufficient amount of them that for the government to set up their own, it would also have to be sufficiently competitive.

A decentralized government system when it comes to infrastructure may also be an idea worth exploring. State governments will have autonomy to decide if they want to built a road through their state, which parts it would go through, the requirement of its citizens and how wide the roads should be.
Certain portfolios would still be under the federal government but the state should have some degree of autonomy.

I would also like to see different states having different economic functions. Certain states would be the cultural hub, the agricultural hub, the financial, the educational, the environmental research, the heavy industry and so on so forth. A highly concentrated population in a single area is no good for everybody.