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TOM SMITH ON SNOWPLOWGATE: Why not just abolish the NYC sanitation department? ?If the argument is?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOM SMITH ON SNOWPLOWGATE: Why not just abolish the NYC sanitation department? “If the argument is, some functions are too critical to public safety to put in private hands, then that is an argument against allowing them to be unionized. If unionized, then the state no longer has a monopoly on the power exercised by that arm, which is the whole idea of putting it in the public sphere. So if you can’t have private police forces running around, let’s say, then it makes no sense to have the monopolized force of the state colonized or even dominated by a union with interests frequently opposed to those of the public.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).