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by genericuser314 1742 days ago
My partner is a civil engineer so I go to a lot of ASCE happy hours and it is common wisdom among civil engineers that for every $100 you spend on infrastructure, you get like $113 to $117 in economic activity. I also believe that almost all federal infrastructure spending has Buy American clauses.

The linked Reason article makes some libertarian arguments against Buy American clauses that if you know anything about libertarianism you can anticipate, but I am not a libertarian and personally think that more things should have Buy American clauses.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-potential-macroeconomic-...

https://reason.org/transportation-news/analysis-of-the-bipar...

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Riding on a subway car in Tokyo and then riding on one in New York makes me wish there were more exceptions to buy American.