Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Like here in Denver, the Orange County Transportation Authority in California has expressed an interest in constructing light rail. The conflict of interest is obvious. If OCTA…
Category: Role of Government
Is Privatization a Bad Word?
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The phony claim that the federal budget is balanced underscores the need to privatize. Congress has conveniently borrowed surpluses from nearly 30 trust funds including $100 billion…
Who Should Pay Tax?
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Who should be exempt from taxes? By resoundingly defeating Amendment 11, Colorado voters said that private charities should continue to be exempt from property taxes. But there…
Utilities: Market Competition is Coming
Issue Paper By Dennis Polhill Although seldom a topic of conversation around Americas dinner tables, the generation and transmission of power is as ripe for privatization as the transportation industry. We must…
Governments Need Job Descriptions (Colorado in the Balance)
By Dennis Polhill An advantage that private sector entities have over public sector entities is clarity of purpose. The parts of private sector entities function like a well-tuned and well-oiled machine. Both…
Providing Definition to Privatization (Colorado in the Balance)
by Dennis Polhill Privatization is a word that is greatly misperceived and unfairly imaged. Its very mention causes adrenalin rushes in government employees. Privatization is a word that is used with great…
Unfair Government Competition Against Small Business
Number 12-93 By Dennis Polhill Executive Summary Unfair Competition exists when a government or quasi-government entity takesadvantage of its tax exemption and other privileges to supply private goods to the marketin competition…
Carrying public works into the future
APWA REPORTER, NOVEMBER 1992 The article entitled “Infrastructure for sale” [August 1992] by Stephen T. Pudloski is outstanding. More needs to be written on the interesting and critical subject of privatization. Although the United…
Here’s a Way to Shape Up our Congress
Denver Post May 10, 1991 Congress has again failed to act according to its own standards: 1991 was the year of Gramm-Rudman where the federal budget deficit would cease to grow. Even with…