[Free State Four]

Rather than allow this to happen, our servants in the Senate took a brave stand and voted to, gasp, privatize its failing restaurants.

Actually, I don't think it was the increase in taxpayer subsidy that prodded them into action. I think it was the idea that the concession was going to increase prices to the individual diners (senators) that threw them into action.

[learner]

Cannot run a restaurant, but can run refineries. Make sense to me.