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Private government contracts exist solely to transfer wealth from the taxpayer to private individuals. There is a revolving door where government officials app
by jmyeet 3y ago
Private government contracts exist solely to transfer wealth from the taxpayer to private individuals.
There is a revolving door where government officials approve contracts and then go and work for said contractors at a later point, which is basically just corruption.
The tender process is a joke. There will be massive cost overruns and everybody knows it.
You see the same pattern play out with so-called "public private partnerships".
Remember this whenever anyone talks about small government and private sector "efficiency".
- glimshe 3y agoIn small government, the government should not have the access to this money to begin with. You can roughly see how small your government really is by comparing its outlays (not taxes because of deficit spending) vs GDP. Corruption of this kind is still possible, but at least it would be less wasted money relatively speaking.
- astrodust 3y agoCool, a tiny, corrupt government that's functionally useless, and services are provided by corporations that can easily outmaneuver these feeble governments, including the under-funded courts. Sounds great!
- novariation 3y agoI'm sorry but how do you deal with the fact governments are complex entities which require important software and IT infrastructure to function ? From my experience building everything in-house is always going to be 10 times more expensive than any market rate software/service and it's also going to be worse, because IT/software companies are concentrating that knowledge and know-how and the government entities end up doing half-assed engineering with a few engineers where they'd need dozens.