Avoiding the Facts on Transit Privatization

A month ago, the Columbus Dispatch published pro and con articles about whether mass transit should be privatized. Rather than ask any actual experts on transit, whoever put together the articles asked Kristina Rasmussen from the National Taxpayers Union to take the pro side and left-wing writer Wayne Madsen to take the con side.

Rasmussen did not make many of the important points that transit experts like the infamous Wendell Cox might have made, but she held her own. Madsen, on the other hand, scored some solid hits provided the readers did not know any facts.

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