RoadBuilders At It Again!

In the pile of proposals which the Legislature is considering is a RoadBuilder sop.

...*adding a prohibition on local governments from using their own workforce or contract with another political subdivision for a local road or bridge project funded, in whole or in part, with state money. The provision also says local governments would have to to bid out any local road or bridge project funded with state money....

While 'bidding out' road projects is a matter of Good Government, prohibiting local Gummints from using their own or other subdivisions' people to do the project is......umnnnhhhh.........interesting.

Why not allow it so long as the project is 'bid out' and the Gummint is the low bidder, factoring in the cost of equipment and tax-burden? 

Nothing wrong with a fair fight.