I'm not sure about Pence yet, but our previous Governor Daniels was.
Privatizing gives the state a guaranteed income stream and puts the risk on the private companies.
See, this is my issue. Someone sold a lot of people a bill of goods. Privatization is a lie to steal from the people. Nothing more.
A) Most governments task with a job do it as well or better than private counterparts. (We are still paying for the privatization of parts of the military. Even where the private companies were able to act in an ethical way (which was not often) their deliverable was always more expensive and less timely than the governments.
B) Privatization is the beginning of limited civil liberties. The point of a private prison is to make money. The only way you can make money is to provide a bigger market, which translates to more customers. The best companies are amoral. Adding that amorality to our criminal justice system is
immoral. That is where we have come from, not where we need to be going . . .
C) Every time privatization fails, the cost gets passed back to whom? That is right! Whether huge debt or lack of services, we all pay. What looks like a good money making deal for all ends up being a big hole for taxpayers to dig themselves out from under, once the private sources take the money and run, or flat out fail. See Indiana Toll Road, and half the other privatization schemes rubber stamped through. Thank goodness they stopped that bull shite in Ohio! If 80-90 became someone's piggy bank everyone would feel the cost!
As far as Marijuana, I don't prefer to think that people I know and love could be smoking all the lethal, toxic additives, assholes add to make their product appear to give a great buzz!
