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GOOD NEWS:Pushback Against Privatization Across the Country
inbluevtDate: Monday, 2013/07/01, 10:45 AM | Message # 1 |   DMCA |   
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The decades-long effort to privatize public services and assets is hitting some bumps, with state and local governments reconsidering
whether for-profit companies should be allowed to indiscriminately
profit off of taxpayer dollars with limited accountability.

In New Jersey, legislation to ensure that public services won't be privatized unless it will result in actual savings for taxpayers has
passed both chambers of the legislature. In Texas, a bipartisan
coalition is fighting against a private prison in Montgomery County, and
Kentucky is rejecting private prisons altogether. And in Fresno,
California, voters rejected a proposal backed by the city's popular
mayor to privatize trash collection services.

“The fact is, when taxpayers see what they lose by handing over control of their roads, prisons and other services, they don’t want anything to
do with outsourcing," says Donald Cohen, chair of In The Public
Interest, a resource center on privatization. "We hope that what we’re
seeing in places like New Jersey, Texas, Kentucky and Fresno is part of a
trend to restore control of services to American taxpayers.”

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