Privatization is part of the ongoing assault on democracy

Donald Cohen, the executive director of In the Public Interest, warns that privatization is eroding democracy. “When corporations take control of public goods like water, transit, and schools, we give them the ability to make decisions that should be made democratically by us, the public. (…) Many ‘public-private partnerships’ take decision-making power away from the public, like Virginia’s Beltway toll lanes contract, which actually requires the government to pay investors if too many people carpool.”