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Originally Posted by Robbie
They don't just "shut down". That's the point.
Unskilled labor making crazy demands for money with no skill or education to back it up is the problem.
"Gave up 20 years of tax collection" ...uhmm, there would have been nothing to collect taxes on if Walmart didn't come to town. You can't "give up" taxing Walmart if they aren't even there to begin with.
Water, sewer...really? You mean the city will pay for my sewer system at my house! Oh...wait a minute...no they didn't and no they won't.
The city has flat told me that their service to me ends in my front yard right where the pipe leaves out of my water meter. Any problems past that...are mine.
"Re-work of roads"? Before I moved here to Vegas I lived in a tiny town in South Carolina. They didn't have to "re-work" any roads to build a Walmart Superstore.
And the businesses that opened up all around that Walmart in the giant strip mall that accompanied it were happy as hell with the built in foot traffic.
Think about it. You're kinda saying that progress, growth, and new jobs are a bad thing.
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This has nothing to do with unskilled labour and Unions. It's about your clothes, electrical goods, and most of the products in your house made by cheap labour in the third world. It's 2011, not 1966.
If Walmart isn't in a town supplying goods, 50 other companies are there. All paying taxes, and all paying taxes at the correct level, small businesses have fewer ways to cut taxes.
No, the City pays for nothing, you pay via taxes or to a private company. If you want to go 100% private, expect to pay more. Like Healthcare where in Europe, we get a better service for half the price.
Walmart doesn't create new jobs. They replace old ones and often less. The retail sector would still thrive without Walmart. No one will stop buying in Walmart leave town.
If you were right, there would be a lot less unemployed, more tax revenue, less debt. But you're wrong. Pointing out how good it is to have a Ford Factory in Mexico, not employing US tax paying workers or paying US company taxes.