{"id":1225,"date":"2017-06-12T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:08:39","slug":"privatization-of-government-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Privatization Of Government Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When government services are privatized, why are the functions not turned over to a not-for-profit company? The government provides services that\u00a0<em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> be run for profit. Services that create a conflict of interest when profit is involved (the major component of my argument for single payer health care). The ideal scenario for the prison system is\u00a0<em>no<\/em> &#8220;customers&#8221; &#8212; no one is breaking the law. That&#8217;s terrible for a company&#8217;s bottom line. To sustain profits, prisons need\u00a0<em>more<\/em> prisoners &#8230; and retention, they need those prisoners to stay longer. There&#8217;s a civic disinterest in the conditions that lead to increased profits.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, cut taxes in half and spin half the government into non-profits charities. Private contributions are tax deductible, and you just saved 5k on taxes &#8230; donate some of that to NASA, NEA, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When government services are privatized, why are the functions not turned over to a not-for-profit company? The government provides services that\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t be run for profit. Services that create a conflict of interest when profit is involved (the major component of my argument for single payer health care). The ideal scenario for the prison system is\u00a0no &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[224,225,50],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government","tag-privatization","tag-tax-policy","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}