New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.
State parks, psychiatric hospitals and even turnpike toll booths could also be run by private operators, according to the 57-page report on privatization obtained by The Star-Ledger. Preschool classrooms would no longer be built at public expense, state employees would pay for parking and private vendors would dish out food, deliver health care and run education programs behind prison walls.
The state conducts more than 1.94 million initial inspections a year and pays for all of them. Drivers pay only if they fail the inspections and have to make repairs.
Privatization is a good thing: it injects competition into feather-bedded state jobs.
But let's take it one step further: a risk/benefit analysis on car inspections. Does the cost of car inspections lead to a benefit which is worth the cost? If the answer is no, then drop the whole darn thing and work on something that does have a tangible benefit.
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