I agree when the private sector gets involved it means the profit motive will inevitably work to create incentives for more of it. That might sound counter conservative to some, but that’s the way the system works and what ends up being corrupt and fascist. There are areas of privatization that work and other areas that corrupt.
I heard a great conservative (his name eludes me) speak on exactly this recently pertaining to private prisons. He said the incentives that come from private prisons are exactly opposite from public interest. The incentive of this industry is not to expand a law abiding society with fewer prison inmates, less judicial corruption but more inmates and more prisons.
The same with a private military or intelligence. Get the private sector out where their incentive is more war etc.. The government may not be perfect but it doesn’t lobby itself with a profit motive that leads to bribes.
One thing that us non-brain dead conservatives have realized after the “privatization” experiments of the last 20 years is that privatization is not a panacea and that government has amazing abilities to corrupt private enterprise that gets involved with it.
Increasingly, these “private” companies like Booz Allen Hamilton of Snowden fame are acting as for-profit arms of the gov’t. It’s harder and harder to tell where government ends and “private contractors” begin.
Any honest assessment of this phenomenon will note that the process started under Clinton, but accelerated and reached monstrous proportions under Bush II, especially in matters pertaining to the Iraq war, an orgy of corruption that has still not be properly autopsied.