• eliminate the Cabinet-level Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs;
• close down major independent agencies such as the Small Business Administration, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Appalachian Regional Commission; and
• terminate obscure independent agencies like the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Japan–United States Friendship Commission, the Marine Mammal Commission, America’s Education Goals Panel, the State Justice Institute, and the United States Institute of Peace.

• privatize Amtrak by selling the passenger rail service, including operations, maintenance, stations, rails, and trains, as a single unit and ending all federal subsidies;

• privatize air traffic control by moving all operations to a private nonprofit corporation similar to Canada’s;

• expand the opt-out program for federal airport security to cover more airports; allow airport operators in the opt-out program to hire security employees directly or to contract out for security services; and monitor all airport screening operations to make possible performance comparisons;

• privatize federal electric utilities by selling the Tennessee Valley Authority and the four power marketing administrations to private investors;

• support competitive outsourcing by embracing the Bush administration’s management reforms and adopting the Commercial Activities Panel’s recommendations on federal contracting; and

• hasten privatization of military support services by allowing private operation of the entire military housing inventory, accelerating military utilities privatization, and giving the Pentagon more flexibility in the contracting-out process.

Explore the labyrinth of Government Bureaucracy

• The Privatization of Public Services - John L. Chapman - Mises Institute
• Privatization (independent.org)
• Reason Foundation - Privatization and Government Reform
• Reason Foundation - Privatization Watch
• More from Reason Foundation
• Privatization (39)
• Privatization (Heartland)

Privatization in a post 9-11 world 

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Pundits and policy-wonks seem to use the word "privatization" in two different ways:

1. Instead of Government workers building schools that government wants, government hires private contractors to build schools that government wants.
2. Instead of the Government building the schools it wants, parents build the schools they want using the miracle of the Free Market.

Kevin Craig supports "privatization" in the first sense only as and when it serves as a stepping-stone to full privatization in the second sense. "Privatization" in the first sense might save a few dollars, but often locks out the possibility of saving much more, and of more effectively meeting the demands of consumers, by moving to full privatization. Privatization in the first sense is not the Free Market. It is often just cronyism.

Questions about government-managed "privatization"

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