• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Contractor pay has nothing to do with the environmental aspects of their legislation. The environmental things are all basically subsidizing companies for things there already doing or going to.

    Further, even the act itself recognizes it’s all going to corpo pockets:

    (7) by incentivizing domestic manufacturing, domestic content procurement preferences reinvest tax dollars in companies and processes using the highest labor and environmental standards in the world;

    Ignore the bit about “highest labor and enviro standards”, it’s bald faced bullshit. BABA is subsidizing corporations.

    Yes, that translates into American job, however… do you really think these corporations are going to be paying most of this subsidy into wages?

    It’s like how Teslas were 50-60k cars and subsidized with tax. Tesla to buy it, but then suddenly dropped to 40k when people couldn’t afford it anyhow. Or federal school loans directly subsidizing the high cost of tuition.

    It’s all just corpo pork. Pure and simple.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Who said I was only talking about the environmental aspects? Also, you’re acting like I wrote the fucking legislation, I didn’t even say if I support it or not.

      Prevailing wage is an entirely different thing, and sure I guess you can choose to ignore it, but it’s not a bad thing.