UK local governments are discovering that outsourcing is ripping them off, and bringing various services into public activity.

This raises the question of how to kill off the remaining long-term outsourcing contracts that hold the state hostage. I recommend defining the concept of parasitic outsourcing -- outsourcing that should never have been allowed -- and giving the state the power to cancel such contracts with a year's notice even if the contract said it was to run for longer.

This would give Chicago a way to cancel Rahm Emanuel's contract for parking revenue farming.