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State agencies may need to catalog commercial activities
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Jake | 12:49 p.m. Feb. 7, 2008
Beware of"privatizing" it is not what it appears.If you go that route
you WII BE SORRY.
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Kathy | 7:15 a.m. Feb. 8, 2008
Thanks for the story. I'm worried that services we need and want will be
only available to the wealthy that can pay a premium. Fewer folks would could
affort to golf, swim, ice skate, borrow books. It's a slippery slope and
the intent seems to be creation of a underclass and upper class. Those that
have capital & those that don't.
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Karen Robinson | 5:21 p.m. Feb. 8, 2008
I cannot think of one instance where privatization of services would be of
benefit to the consumer. My husband posited that if there were true
competition, then the private sector could sometimes perform better. I
challenged him to name one, and he couldn't, without resorting to the
railroad under the control of the Soviet Union -- besides, there's no true
competition these days. Managing to make the most money and managing to serve
the public are entirely different goals with no common ground.
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Alice | 10:22 a.m. Feb. 15, 2008
The bill appears to be a "small government" message bill rather than a
carefully crafted public policy. Services should be government provided if (1)
open public access to the service is desireable (as in garbage collection and
recreation facilities); (2) there is a monopoly and the decision has been made
to provide the servivce publicly rather than to regulate a private provider (as
in the decision of some cities to provide electrical service); (3) the service
should be provided to achieve the maximum public benefits and private providers
are unlikely to do this (as in land-use planning); or (4) the program results in
a transfer of resources from one group to another (as in the subsidy programs
used to make housing affordable).
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