Prevailing wage is union payback  Letters to the editor for Aug.
1, 2013: Prevailing wage; crowded Comic Con; Liberty
Station;UCSD a Dem promoter; Bible as a tax code  Prevailing
wage will force out small guy  Boy, those City Council members
are really two-faced. Punish Filner by not paying his lawyer,
then reward Filner’s backers for putting him in office  (“S.D.
passes prevailing wage bill,” July 31).  Passing a prevailing
wage rule for almost all city projects will be the demise of
many small companies that do specialized work for the city. The
additional paperwork, insurance, taxes and salary requirements
that come with prevailing wage will force small companies to
forgo the work. Most of these small companies are local. All to
the benefit of big donors to the Democrat party.  As a small
contractor, we had to stop doing prevailing wage work because
the paperwork was too time consuming. The work would be
completed, salaries, taxes and materials paid for, and then
months of back and forth between the genera