Project 2025: Privatize, Privatize, Privatize

The main actions of Project 2025 would

eliminate useful public services, making life harder for all Americans
privatize useful public services, putting valuable resources that Americans paid for in the hands of private corporations with no accountability

The words privatize and privatization appear many times in Project 2025.

Privatization often leads to higher costs and worse services.

Billionaires and corporations promote privatization because it lets them make money off things the public has paid for.

Privatization hurts us all

According to How Privatization Robs Us of Our Most Precious Assets:

when we privatize, we are turning our own assets over to someone else who will sell them back to us and pocket our money. He explains why privatization is a bad deal and why public goods and services should remain in public hands. There is a right-wing effort to stigmatize public services as Big Government (calling public schools “government schools” for instance), and Cohen makes the case for why we need a pro-public culture that unashamedly demand that what belongs to the people stays in the hands of the people.

According to Privatisation of government services in Australia: what is known about health and equity impacts:

Privatisation of public services is likely to have had an adverse impact on population health and contributed to the increase in inequities. This review suggests that there is little evidence for the benefits of privatisation, with a need for greater attention to political and commercial determinants of health in policy formation and in research.

According to Impact of Privatization on Healthcare System: A Systematic Review:

privatization negatively impacts uninsured patients and low-income populations

According to The Harms of Infrastructure Privatization: A Step Backward in Progressive Policymaking:

Too often, contracted companies generate more income by exploiting workers, cutting corners on quality, charging high prices to users, and/or excluding certain groups from service—not by increasing efficiency.

10 reasons why privatisation is bad for you summarizes the top 10:

1. You don't have a choice - public services are natural monopolies
2. Waste
3. Cutting corners
4. Cherry picking
5. Fragmentation
6. Wrong incentives
7. Inadequate regulation
8. Lack of flexibility
9. Loss of capacity
10. Risk of bailouts