There’s a sure-fire way to make a liberal’s head explode: Just tell him his eco-friendly windmills are killing endangered birds.
But here’s a story to make conservatives’ heads explode instead. The federal Davis-Bacon Act, which helps unions by forcing taxpayers to overpay for government construction projects, has proven so onerous that it has prompted Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon to turn down a $74,000 federal community block grant:
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Davis-Bacon is a pernicious piece of legislation that simply wastes taxpayers’ money. Its “prevailing wage” scale is designed solely to prop up union construction firms by preventing non-union firms from underbidding them. Yet it has just caused one of America’s most heavily subsidized and least worthy organizations to pass up taxpayers’ money as they construct an $8.5 million facility. How are conservatives supposed to feel about this?
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