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In reply to the discussion: The Most Addictive Infographic About Walmart's Greed We've Ever Seen [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)insists on a town give up in property tax revenue and the amount of money it costs the town to build roads and increase traffic demands to the big box store, not to mention the number of main st stores that will be bypassed and squeezed out of the competition market in the town when the Walmart comes in and builds their box store/ strip mall area on cheap land on the outskirts of the town where they have the land and space to build over formerly vacant marshlands, drained, and converted into commercial property.
Then more people in the town lose their jobs on main st and more people lose their homes (property tax income) and less money in town means more people on Govt programs. And eventually, even the Walmart is forced to close their doors because there aren't enough people left with jobs to keep the Walmart profitable. The younger people are forced to move away to get a job that can take care of the family, and the town becomes a virtual ghost town with no Main St left and a 40 minute drive for elderly retiree's on a fixed income to have to drive to the next town over where the new Walmart has just been built.
Sad, deadly downward spiral of the big box store! Regulation and minimum wages that are living wages would help to offset the devastation that Walmart can cause in smaller cities and towns. And the "right" most "common sense" action for the good of The People is not taken because the Walton's and their investors buy their politicians to protect their billions from the people who actually do the "hard day's work load" in America.