Maybe a tinfoil hat theory. BUT if that TPP part about privitized sections being stuck privatitzed.

[diabeticman]

Remember a few years back some counties privatized their fire department?

Some counties and towns have talked about privatizing police departments/sheriff departments because taxes aren't able to pay for these services.

IF this part of the TPP is true and says once you privatize a public service you can't change it back to a public service you would basically have a legal thug gang that could be worse than the police abuse issues now.


Imagine your city privatizing your police department and now instead of Taxes you have to pay a monthly service charge. Imagine if that service charge is broken into our regular service, our gold service ( for a little more money) and Platium service (more money) now imagine you have regular service and your neighbor who has a grudge against you has the best service and decides you are making too much noise or doesn't like you are having a birthday party in your back yard and they basically call this privatize police department. ....

[OnyxCollie]

1. Bechtel's coming for our water. nt

[Hoyt]

2. So now the TPP is going to cause cities to privatize police, fire departments, etc.

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Nor does it say you can't change it back. I suppose if some yahoo town turned the police department over to a Somalian security company, and then got tired of Sharia law, and booted them out. The Somalian company might he entitled to some damages if they had a long term contract. But who the heck thinks that is going to happen?

[starroute]

3. It's TISA that does this, not the TPP, but it's totally real

http://teamster.org/magazine/2015/winter/tisa-newest-bad-trade-deal

Many states and municipalities burned by high costs and poor performance of private service providers are bringing those services back under the government’s control. Last year, Maryland passed a law banning private contractors from contracting with the state if they broke the law.

In Oregon, Nebraska and Connecticut, legislatures passed laws requiring more supervision of private contracts. Nineteen states had legislation introduced that would let taxpayers reclaim control of public services.

But TISA negotiators have a trick up their sleeves. The TISA would limit and possibly ban the return of privatized services to governments. According to PSI, TISA would “prevent governments from creating or reestablishing public monopolies or similar ‘uncompetitive’ forms of service delivery.”

It would also lock in any privatization of government services. PSI explains that “if a government did decide to privatize a public service, that government would be unable to return to a public model at a later date.”

[Hoyt]

4. Sorry, sounds like fear mongering to me. No agreement is going to do that.

[tridim]

5. Yay. More insane FUD! nt