I thought that these "Big Box" retailers brought thousands of jobs into the community - isn't that a good thing? Jobs= less unemployment, more money for citizens and the community, more self-respect - ability to work your way up the system.
But the liberal local government = who always says they are looking out for the poor and less fortunate - are doing what they can to prevent these stores from coming in. Yep I am dumb because I do not get it.
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Lets pass laws that requires big government to provide a safety net for those that fall through the cracks and then get upset when corporations take advantage of those systems to cut costs.
Fortunately we can just pass more regulation to strangle a coporations ability to generate wealth while at the same time tax those with wealth to redistribute to those unintersted in making the decision to generate their own wealth.
Actually I also do not understand. Presumably a big box retailer will not move into a town where there is no demand for the goods they sell. Yet since the thigns they sell are fairly standard and ubiquitous, you would expect some local merchants to be selling those things in the town already, and for those local businesses to fold when the mroe efficient and inexpensive big box stores move in and take over. But I'm not sure where the argument for less unemployment comes from, since local merchants would assumedly have already been selling any products there was a demand for.
What should really matter is a complete economic breakdown of all of hte effects of such a retailer entering a city, including research on differences in number of jobs and wages, who in the community will be employed/unemployed as a result, the effect on the community of lower priced goods, the effect of Wal-Mart's profits leaving the community vs less efficient local busnesses whose owners live and spend locally, etc. It seems like Wal-Marts oponents try to make arguments against it on a wide variety of these types of issues; however, they're clearly biased. Still, as long as the supporters of big-box retailers speek in over-simplified terms about the argument, and dismiss real socioeconomic objections as liberal whining and propaganda, I have no reaosn to think they they actually have any compelling arguments in favor of allowing such a retailer into your community.
What?
Im curious as to who should to the economic analysis you recomend.
That last statement was nonsensical. I simply asking whom Darwin believe should peform the economic analysis.
Well in this case, the local government- the people closest to the problem, as you like to say. THat's who's passing these legislations after all, right?
You want coucil me to perform a detailed analysis of the econcomic impact of big box retailers?
I dunno man, who do you want to make those decisions?
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