When considering a piece of legislation, the first question should be "what problem is this supposed to solve?" And if it doesn't solve that problem, or, as is often the case, the problem doesn't exist, what's the point of the bill?
Your pet bill won't build a single mile of road. In the midwest, there are few if any non-union contractors big enough to bid on major highway projects. Repealing a old law protecting unions is not going to change that fact, and your legislators know that. So what's their REAL motivation? It's smoke and mirrors to present the illusion they're working on the road problem, when they in fact have no intention of doing anything constructive. Building highways is HARD because it takes MONEY. Passing pointless union-bashing bills, on the other hand, is as easy as pie.
Here in Michigan we have a similar situation. The roads and bridges are decrepit, and the obvious solution is to raise fuel taxes. Given that one party, the Know-Nothings, has control of both houses of the legislature and the governor's seat, you'd think they could agree on a way to do this. NOT A CHANCE! It seems they couldn't figure out a way to raise taxes without being accused of raising taxes. So they punted. In May we get to vote whether or not to raise the state sales tax, a portion of which will go to funding roads. The chances of this bill passing are slim. Either way the taxpayers get to foot the bill for a special election because the legislators couldn't bring themselves to do their jobs. Of course this election is a can't lose proposition for the legislature: If it fails, they can say "the voters don't want the roads fixed." If it passes, they'll says "We never voted for a tax increase!" Nice.
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