09 Apr 2009
Marketize!

Just an excellent essay on so-called "privatization" of State assets by Marcel Votlucka. And an interesting set of observations on our own Hoosier toll road shitstorm. Go read this thing...

The idea that you can somehow run government like a business and get the best of both worlds is absurd because the incentives and economic calculation just aren’t there. Public-private partnerships reek of the Original Sin of State privilege, monopoly and exploitation, and they can never escape that legacy. Even the very language of privatization alienates so many people already that when libertarians talk about replacing government services with market-based ones, folks assume we’re shilling for corrupt things like Halliburton or Blackwater or wimpy school vouchers. Instead of merely privatizing the management of existing monopoly government infrastructure, let’s focus on augmenting and replacing it outside the statist complex, through marketization.

(link) [Strike the Root!]

via LeftLibertarian

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