I don't think this is realistic. Business, especially at a certain level, is intimately intertwined with politics.
Suffice to look that lobbyists outnumber Congress representatives in Washington (last time I checked it was 4 to 1, if my memory serves me well).
The reason is that a business must generate profits, and a business doesn't live "out there in the ether", it is a moral entity bound by laws. The word is laws. So its very existence, and the way it generates profits are regulated. There is a direct influence of laws on its profits, so the incentive for a business to influence the laws that influence its profits is one of the first things that will pop up in someone's head.
"Tax is X% by this law.. I wonder if we could change this.. Do I know someone who'd be able to influence ?".
And this, on a small scale. Imagine what it's like for big companies, and people from big companies who change their careers for a Government career. Is it safe to assume that they still hold affection (didn't want to say allegiance) to their old company ? It is safe to asume so, it is human after all.
We need not to see further than former employees of big bangs, pharmaceutical companies and oil companies who became part of the Government Administration to see that saying "mixing business and politcs is a bad mix" may be true, but it still happens. It's not like one can just wipe out memory from someone who's worked at a company for 20 years.
Suffice to look that lobbyists outnumber Congress representatives in Washington (last time I checked it was 4 to 1, if my memory serves me well).
The reason is that a business must generate profits, and a business doesn't live "out there in the ether", it is a moral entity bound by laws. The word is laws. So its very existence, and the way it generates profits are regulated. There is a direct influence of laws on its profits, so the incentive for a business to influence the laws that influence its profits is one of the first things that will pop up in someone's head.
"Tax is X% by this law.. I wonder if we could change this.. Do I know someone who'd be able to influence ?".
And this, on a small scale. Imagine what it's like for big companies, and people from big companies who change their careers for a Government career. Is it safe to assume that they still hold affection (didn't want to say allegiance) to their old company ? It is safe to asume so, it is human after all.
We need not to see further than former employees of big bangs, pharmaceutical companies and oil companies who became part of the Government Administration to see that saying "mixing business and politcs is a bad mix" may be true, but it still happens. It's not like one can just wipe out memory from someone who's worked at a company for 20 years.