Government is responsible for ensuring the quality and availability of key public services. The private sector's motive is profit. Where the public welfare is at stake government must maintain control. Thus highways might be built by private contractors, but planning, engineering, and inspection are the duty of government and are privatized at the public's peril. Today, government agencies run golf courses, telecommunications systems and casinos.
Corporations deliver mail, sell drinking water and run jails.
Public employees' unions opposed Indiana's attempt to privatize data processing and attempts in Texas to explore welfare privatization. Inc. All Rights Reserved.