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DC may, the residents, especially the low skilled, will be worse off. I recall the Bronx Armory charade over a similar law with a mall abandoning plans to add thousands of jobs, with no taxpayer subsidy. 3 years later, Fresh Direct goes in with $12 per hr p/t jobs, getting tens of thousands of subsidies per job, and hiring just a fraction of what the mall would have.
All this episode shows is the utter contempt liberals in particular white liberals have for poor people. It's ideology or nothing. Wal-Mart's workers are on public assistance they screech. Ok and considering they took the job what other options do they have? I guess liberals prefer they stay at home. Whole Foods pays its workers the same and bans Spanish yet nary a peep from liberals.Why because liberals patron Whole Foods. How many people on food stamps shop at Wal-Mart compared to Whole Foods?
The areas in Dc where Wal-Mart was going to open were in poor Black areas where grocery stores and business in general are nearly non-existent. One center where the store would be located has been without an anchor for 23 years but hey Wal-Mart's bad! So no jobs for the poor Blacks in the neighborhood.
National median for violent crime is 3.9, but in DC it's 12.02.
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The cost of living index is 148 for DC.
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Yes. But getting rid of Wal-Mart will help those poorer consumers.
Shopping at more expensive stores always helps poor folk.
But who really cares about the poor. They do not vote so they don't matter politically. And losing Wal-Mart makes liberals feel good about themselves. That's the way to improve the economy. Feeling good about ourselves.
Somehow I don't see Walmart doing that, I hope DC does pass this bill, it will be a good move for the working class of the city.
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