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Biden’s Davis-Bacon bloat undermines taxpayer infrastructure investments

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Published September 6, 2022 2:55pm ET
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Biden’s Davis-Bacon bloat undermines taxpayer infrastructure investments
Workers fix a sewer main below the sidewalk in Mid City New Orleans, on Jan. 31, 2018. The city of New Orleans is perhaps one of the best examples of what President Trump calls the country’s “crumbling infrastructure.” City officials say New Orleans needs more than $11 billion to update key parts of its infrastructure. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The unprecedented expansion of the archaic Davis-Bacon Act (an inflationary and anti-small business regulation requiring contractors to pay inaccurate, bloated government-determined wages and benefits on taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects) into privately developed clean energy construction projects receiving federal tax incentives is raising serious concerns among developers, small businesses in the construction industry, climate change activists, and taxpayers.

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