If an industry is sold for the present value of its expected earnings and if these earnings are the same in public and private ownership, privatization should have no net impact on public finances.
One proposal is full contractualization or privatization, leaving marriage to churches and private organizations.
By July only about 5% of all production was fully in private hands, and on July 29 the parliament resolved to postpone further privatization on the grounds that the shadow economy was in the hands of criminal elements.
The tragedy of prison privatization is well-documented.
"There are privatization groups that salivate at the thought of getting that money out of the public sector and into the private sector," Boston added.
All of them have ignored – or blissfully forgotten – that privatization, not government overreach, lies at the heart of America's suppurating arrest and deportation policy.
But prison and detention privatization, the underlying factor in the ongoing humanitarian tragedy that is immigration policy, presents another obstacle to GOP hopefuls – even as the prison industry itself continues to pump money into politics and wring profit out of the ongoing crisis at the border.
The new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, announced an immediate change in the austerity policies demanded by the EU and reversed some of the most arbitrary and unproductive actions of the previous five years – including the privatization of state-owned utilities and public real estate around the Acropolis and efforts to crush collective bargaining.
How can we get them to endorse our agenda of privatization?" Boston theorized.
Norman Ornstein seems to make two; when he blames crony capitalism on "the mania for privatization, and the willingness of politicians to pander to antigovernment sentiment", it doesn't sound like he's chiefly blaming Democrats.But my colleague isn't really accusing Democrats of being more prone to crony capitalism than Republicans.
It would take decades until Margaret Thatcher's privatization reforms restored Britain's place among the world's top-tier economies.I cannot imagine two leaders with less in common than Barack Obama and Nicolae Ceausescu.
