What law is going to stop the decision maker from giving a high dollar contract to his unqualified buddy? He’s the decision maker for a reason. The buddy doesn’t have to pay him directly as a kickback, they can offer benefits or disguise shit thru shell corporations etc. Adding more people to the government payroll isn’t going to stop that… replacing the current ones with competent/honorable people might, but good fucking luck with that. The only option is to make it so the only things the government is involved in are things that they MUST be involved in, leave the other shit to the market to handle. It will. If someone is gouging people for a service then someone else will come along and undercut them to get the business. That model works a lot better than the government stealing a bunch of money from its citizens and then blindly shelling it out to buddies of the decision makers. PPP loans are no different if you want a more recent example. We could form committees to make these kinds of decisions but look at the Supreme Court… the most “honorable” group in the land is a fucking shit show. Government is not the answer here.

Nobody has shown “time and again” that privatization leads to more issues by the way… that statement is false. Show me 3 examples where the government handled something better than a private company could. I literally don’t think you can find one example in the US.