Privatizing Government - Civitas Institute

What does the Democratic-led US Senate do when its government run restaurants are operating at deficits each year and the food and service is "substandard"?

It agrees to privatize them. Sen. Diane Feinstein comments:

"Candidly, I don’t think the taxpayers should be subsidizing
something that doesn’t need to be. There are parts of government that
can be run like a business and should be run like businesses."

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In a letter to colleagues, Feinstein said that the Government Accountability Office
found that "financially breaking even has not been the objective of the
current management due to an expectation that the restaurants will
operate at a deficit annually." (emphasis mine).

How many other government operations lack profit motive that would be better served through private enterprise? I would bet quite a few if we started making a list.

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