John Young: More privatizing fairy tales
Source: Waco Tribune (TX), Thursday, July 26, 2007
Back when Ronald Reagan could get taxpayers frothy over tales of “welfare Cadillacs,” the real scandal they didn’t hear about until too late was corporate welfare.
……. In Texas, lawmakers went to great lengths this session to make sure working-poor families don’t con Texas by exceeding income limits for the doctors’ visits and flu shots made possible by the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Fire up your ire, boys. Where was the umbrage four years ago when, with thousands of children being dropped from CHIP, auditors found that the state had overpaid a vendor $20 million for administering the program, including millions for individual consultants? But, you see, that’s just the cost of privatizing government.