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Originally Posted by ozone
No Carl it's not joke and I don't get how you can think that requiring or preferring publicly-funded projects use local labor as much as possible is in anyway a subsidy. The communities paying for the damn thing should benefit as much as possible.
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I'll agree up to a point where the local produced product costs far more than a remote product. Whether that point is 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, or 100% more - a number set and published prior to releasing the RFP, all other factors being equal. That's assuming the entire costs of the project is funded locally. But as soon as one penny of federal funding is included, that local scope turns into a national scope.
Never-the-less, I would dislike to see an inferior product purchased over a superior product just because it's produced locally. Quality is just as important as origin and costs.