$900,000 is pretty cheap for a public project. The unions that vote our politicians into office need to win these jobs, and to do so they force non union companies to pay their workers ridiculous wage rates. That plus all the red tape with DEEP, DOT, DECD, etc and the cost of these projects skyrocket.

I am not advocating some schmuck go out an hire a bunch of Mexicans, but we should do away with the Federal or Davis Bacon wage rates.....
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