Fighting to Improve Bad Legislation
There were a couple of amendments attempted on HB 144, the alcohol and cigarette tax increase bill, that are worthy of mention and praise.
HFA5 and HFA7 from Representatives Sal Santoro (Boone 60, 2008 rank #11) and Addia Wuchner (Boone 66, 2008 rank #1) would:
eliminate prevailing wage requirements on K-12 and postsecondary education projects from April 1, 2009 to March 30, 2011.
We have long maintained that
If growing the economy was the focus of the plan, we would be having a serious discussion of a prevailing wage moratorium. Eliminating this artificial wage requirement would mean more jobs building more projects for the same money. Jobs should be our focus in these economic circumstances.
A gold star for Representatives Wuchner and Santoro.
