Driven by wrong-minded public officials and corporate greed, contracts for public services are doled out without regard to cost effectiveness or quality. The public pays more and gets lower quality of services while public service workers are laid off and corruption scandals make the news. That's why we say "Privatization Equals Corruption" and "It's Unwise to Privatize."

Council 4 commissioned a report, which was written by Economics Professor James P. Stodder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Hartford.