farmboy - 10:14 pm on May 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

I can see how local attorneys, accountants, real estate services, and the like would make a market that AdSense could serve to the county's web pages.

You mean local accountants, attorneys, etc. opening AdWords accounts so their ads would appear on the county's website? If Google comes up with a way to make that happen, let me know.

I am (kind of) confident that careful management (perhaps every day) of the AdSense system on these pages could minimize these troubles.

How much would it cost to hire bureaucrats to monitor the site round the clock as compared to how much they would earn?

Would it be much different from the privatization of government services that is becoming popular these days?

Different. Very different. As different as night and day.

I could learn to live with it if it helped fund schools, hospitals, and lowered taxes,...

Government bodies don't lower taxes with new revenue, they just spend more.

FarmBoy