re: #158 dragonath

Not every state is like Illinois. however, that article shows the peril of privatizing municipal duties- a symptom of a much larger disease

There are about a thousand different reasons that make New Jersey more attractive to people than just low taxes. By your metric, Texas should be the most attractive state in the Union.

I’d object to the point on privatisation, as I feel that private firms can be used successfully in services like garbage collection and road repair. But for other things like parking meters (Chicago is currently suffering from an extremely bad privatization deal on those), though, should remain under government employ.