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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
On a large enough project, you are talking about hundreds to thousands of jobs. The small differences add up in volume.
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Absolutely.
But if you are comparing different ways to spend a certain amount of government money, then you may be comparing more lower-paid jobs with fewer higher-paid jobs, and added differentials between costs of materials and the wages/profits that go to execs and owners, so it's not so simple.
Maybe the difference is not so small. If anyone can find actual research that addresses this, I'd be curious to see it. When I tried, I found some crap from Heritage and Cato that I didn't bother to share here.
