This is the typical Republican playbook. Privatize, their friends take control, and then they get the government to pay their cronies huge sums of money for the services the government used to provide for itself for a fraction of the cost. It’s what they are trying to do with school vouchers too.
This is the typical Republican playbook. Privatize, their friends take control, and then they get the government to pay their cronies huge sums of money for the services the government used to provide for itself for a fraction of the cost. It’s what they are trying to do with school vouchers too.
Except that private weather companies use freely available government data and “enrich” it for the public for a fee.
Which is, imo, even more on brand with Republicans.
Contracting public services to private companies is a core tenet of neoliberalist economics. Thanks Chicago School. /s