Be sure to check out today’s Boston Globe editorial, which highlights something the Senate Republican Caucus has been saying for years now: the state’s Pacheco Law is depriving the Commonwealth of significant savings that could be achieved through privatization and outsourcing and should be repealed.
Although the Globe employs at least one outspoken critic of the 1993 law on its op-ed page (see our May 7, 2010 posting, “Boston Globe’s Scot Lehigh Backs Repeal of ‘Misguided’ Anti-Privatization Pacheco Law”), this is the first time the Globe has editorialized in support of repealing the law, which it describes as “an affront to common sense.”
“The so-called Pacheco Law doesn’t just keep government agencies from saving money by hiring outside contractors to perform certain services,” the Globe writes. “It also sends a broad message: In Massachusetts, the demands of special-interest groups – in this case, public-employee unions – can outweigh the obligation to run government efficiently.”
The repeal of the Pacheco Law is just one of many cost-saving government reforms on the Senate Republican Caucus’ legislative agenda for the 2011-2012 session.
