"I’ve also always been suspicious of privatization schemes. That’s because I tend to think that when a service is for profit rather than for the public’s benefi

"I’ve also always been suspicious of privatization schemes. That’s because I tend to think that when a service is for profit rather than for the public’s benefit, all sorts of perverse incentives arise." Holy crap, how can anyone take this piece seriously with this zinger in the opening paragraph. Neither private nor public are by themselves a panacea. Everything has trade-offs. This kind of polemic is not contributing to any kind of rational discourse.