Home Depot Rant

Not really, local municipalities in my state get no such thing as a cut of the state sales tax. There are two counties that have an additional

It is an issue in my state because somehow walmart has arranged to have themselves put into the same category as a small business startup business venture but with extra super good terms that no one else gets.

We acquire the properties for them including leveling mountains to prepare the site, build all of the infrastructure including access roads, traffic signals, utilities etc and then they get a 9 year tax exemption. When the tax exemption is about to run out wally simply calls and has another site prepared for their use. The nearest wally to me has a perfectly adequate site but we are preparing a new site less than a

What's fair about a governmental entity interposing itself between a willing buyer and willing seller? The government, with the power of fines, firearms, and flogging can impose its will. That's hardly fair.

But we'll never know inasmuch as Walmart chose not to compete on the city's terms.

Walmart did not open a store in Chicago because the re-zoning necessary for its facility mandated a $10/hour wage with $3/hr in benefits. These "rules" applied only to the area Walmart wanted and not to any other business in the city. Walmarts decision did not rest on the absence of tax breaks.

Fortunately we don't have zoning in Houston.

That sounds remarkably like the days of the coal barons in the area where I grew up. Long before my time a few families owned all of the coal mining operations and made fabulous wealth at the expense of the workers who were basically owned by the company because they lived in tiny company houses and had to buy everything from company houses. As a token the coal barons would pay for a cheap funeral if a child died so they could be looked upon as benevolent.

As a bonus the area still hasn't recovered from all of the scarring and environmental damage. But it all balanced out because a couple families became extremely wealthy.

Which demonstartes that Walmarts plan really works for them. Those were very likely the people who once had real jobs in manufacturing but those jobs disappeared due to the unrelenting demands of walmart for lower prices each time from suppliers.

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According to my state Walmart employees are the biggest % of people getting assistance in our state while we build new stores for them with

Actually they are not. Their management simply believes in not standing on people's heads as if they were running a 19th century coal mine. Part of that is demonstrated in executive compensation. Their CEO makes $350,000 as opposed to the $23.3 Million walmarts CEO received.

They also don't feed at the public trough while claiming they are capitalists . When they build a store they don't have us build it for them and they don't get tax exemptions.

Ah, didn't know that. Thanks.

We don't have many union members in Texas - it's a "Right to Scab" state.

willshak wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.supernews.com:

Yea, that's a more accurate phonetic spelling. I'm not gonna argue with a NY'er on this one ;-)

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Groan, well, he found a second pipe when he went to turn all back on so had to do that one too. It's all fixed up now. Got a heater for the garage and we are testing it out.

on 1/4/2008 8:06 PM Red Green said the following:

My ex had relatives there.

That was a JOKE.

No virus that I know of, I have a good antivirus and the virii files are updated every hour.

Maybe you ran into my firewall.

You already did. You're 0 - 1

True

Not true. There is no reason to "have" to outbid anyone. You have to have a good reputation. Some of the highest priced are in demand do to the quality of their work. Only the government and fools require going with the lowest bidder. We just gave out a contract (three bids from four contractors) to the middle bid that was $10,000 higher. There were reasons other that money for the decision.

And how many glass companies have you successfully started?

Two other posters disagree with you.

None. I've been to busy making money with other ones I've started. If I have to be the low bidder, I'm not interested either.

That does not make the right. As I've stated, HD, Lowed, or WalMart has never forced any store out of business. Just show me where that is true.

SNIPS

ROTFL.

Damn, I'm good. (g)