Let businesses handle government services

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "In this world, nothing is certainbut death and taxes." Death and taxes are still among life's fewcertainties. The only difference is that taxes have grown sinceFranklin made that statement, and they're still growing.

That's why a proposal that state Sen. Judy Baar Topinka(R-Riverside) recently introduced is such good news.

The legislation (Senate J.R. 116) covers the concept ofprivatization - where services performed by state and localgovernment could be contracted out or sold to business. If theproposal passes both houses of the General Assembly, a committee willbe set up to study the impact privatization would have on the …