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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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Most of the workers at my local were experienced skilled workers having no job capability except to work at a retailer. Many have good degrees from good schools also.
They have families to feed and many, while refusing to take public assistance for the most part, have no alternative lately but to apply for it because the wage won't keep food on the table while keeping a roof over the head and a car to traverse to/from work with insurance & gas/tires.
Some states don't allow the locals to exempt tax. If they would have gave all the existing Businesses the same tax break, perhaps they would still be there. Where I am, they were not allowed to be exempt from school/property tax only. A economic development zone the called it.
My local township ran the water/sewer lines miles to their location so they would not locate in the city limits (to avoid taxes) and then refused to pay for it. Our taxes have been going up because of the costs of maintenance of the new roads/lanes/lights to make that happen.
The point was why give a tax advantage to someone who is going to lower you tax base by putting other retailers out of biz (and the jobs that went with those) and the loss of property tax revenue from all the now vacant buildings that went out have less income for the locality. It was a jobs replacement measure, only there was not as many replaced.
Since, where I am, the tax break expired (like many areas) the pricing has went up their margins are down. Which is why they are now closing stores that do not make the margin cut.
But those they put out of biz are still gone. So is the revenue that the old stores brought to the area.
I am confused when the real costs of living (utilities,housing,insurance,food) has went up 60% in 10 years and wages have not went up even 10% if at all. On that track, who will have money to spend. Let alone tax so that you can have a easy comfortable smooth drive to your super center with working street lights/signals.
Jobs at what price ? You either live in a state where this is not allowed or you are naive to what deals were cut in your area.
You seem to believe in the 'Company Store' mentality. Go load your 15 tons.
It becomes slavery under a different name.