By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
“At the end of the day, I came to one conclusion: this is a bad bill with a good name. Let’s face it: if this bill was named ‘your cost of living will be going up by 20% bill,’ it would have never seen the light of day. But, in fact, that’s the testimony that we heard.”
That’s Anthony Bucco from the Assembly floor on Thursday, Save Jerseyans, delivering a particularly powerful argument against the “Buy American” bill (in actuality a series of 5 separate measures) which passed with 43 votes; if signed into law, all awarded N.J. public contracts, including any awarded by agencies like the port authorities, would require the recipient to utilize only goods “made in America.”
The inevitable result? Less foreign investment for New Jersey (not to mention that fact that ‘made in America’ doesn’t exactly mean what it did before globalization).
Listen below and please share! The substance of Bucco’s articulate opposition was not dissimilar from his colleague Michael Patrick Carroll’s Monday address offered in opposition to a resolution urging Congress to act against so-called “corporate inversions” at the federal level: the road to hell is paved with good intentions…
Where do you buy American ….