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There is an entire missing and/or inadequate subset of the law that the country as a whole and regional governments need to adopt, regulating how governments ar
by tehwebguy 5y ago
There is an entire missing and/or inadequate subset of the law that the country as a whole and regional governments need to adopt, regulating how governments are allowed to enter into contracts. I'm sure people here could name a dozen other categories but a few that come to mind that should very possibly be banned:
- Entering into NDAs -- should governments be allowed to keep secrets for a business they enter into a contract with or do the people have the right to know everything a gov learns in the course of doing business?
- Proprietary products, software & services -- if an off-the-shelf alternative exists should govs be permitted to pay for something that they might have to trash as soon as as a contract ends? or something that might go up in price any possible % if they wish to renew?
- Sweeping prosecution agreements -- should govs be able to contract with police unions on matters like deferring interrogations when the suspect or indicted person is police? or similarly for government officials?
- Privatizing -- should govs be allowed to sell basically anything? that is, if the public has funded the ownership & maintenance of something with tax dollars should a government be able to transfer it to some business or individual rather than lease? without a vote / auction?