Exactly. And what is interesting is that instead of having debt into the future due to pensions for PD and Fire, they set those up on 401k style programs.
I know there are knee jerk liberals but this is the first time I have run into a knee jerk conservative. Government is a monopoly. It is price insensitive and demand ignorant. By its very nature entrenched bureaucracy is slow, inefficient, and expense to run. The Sandy Springs model is probably closer to what things were like before government got so big and know it all.
Why would anyone not be willing to try something that has and is working elsewhere? I guess some folks just tend towards anarchy
Yep, and one of the biggest expenses are employees. Not just paying wages, but pensions and all the ever changing medical insurance, workers comp, fighting off suits of discrimination and 'unfairness', etc.
Going private would shield the city to a great extent from these types of expenses....and thus passing the savings to the taxpayers.
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Why would anyone not be willing to try something that has and is working elsewhere?
Good question, and honestly, I don't get the objections, either.
Maybe they work for a city.