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Walmart says it will kill plans to build 3 new stores if DC wage bill passes

No one is forced. The contract says what it says.

Yes, when state law allows it, the contract says that membership in the union is no longer voluntary, it is a mandatory condition of employment. Why are you trying to avoid the obvious?
 
Would those food stamp costs decrease if Wal*Mart disappeared?

That is not relevant. A fulltime employee should earn enough that they do not need foodstamps.
 
You think that companies should voluntarily turn down proffered government subsidies? Why aren't you campaigning to repeal the subsidies???

The problem isn't the subsidies, it is the excessively low pay. The minimum wage should be regulated on a county-wide basis to reflect the cost of living in that area.
 
That is not relevant. A fulltime employee should earn enough that they do not need foodstamps.

Logically, yes. In the misshapen America that has arisen over the last 30 years, that idea is long dead and gone. Feudalism and serfdom now are thought of as "natchrull" ................................
 
That is not relevant. A fulltime employee should earn enough that they do not need foodstamps.

Then a fulltime employee should not be having kids until they can afford them.
 
What great way to kept them out of your town, just increase the minimum wage.


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Walmart says it will cancel its plans to build three new stores in D.C. if local lawmakers approve a bill that would force the retailer to pay its employees at least $12.50 an hour.

Alex Barron, a regional general manager for Walmart U.S., writes in an op-ed published in the Washington Post Tuesday that the company feels the D.C. Council's proposed "living wage" legislation “would clearly inject unforeseen costs into the equation that will create an uneven playing field and challenge the fiscal health of our planned D.C. stores.”


Walmart currently has three other new stores under construction in the area, and Barron says those stores will also be jeopardized if the bill passes.




Read more: Walmart says it will kill plans to build 3 new stores if DC wage bill passes | Fox News






I think they'd be enticed to stay if they got to keep everyone else's wages at $12.50, too.
 
Odd, I don't see Wal-Mart mentioned here.

These are the top five business bribes in U.S. history.

Kellogg Brown & Root
This company, now known as KBR, Inc., was spun off from a subsidiary of Halliburton. It is one of the largest engineering and construction firms in the world and has been connected to large U.S. military contracts. According to the New York Times, in 2009, the Department of Justice charged the company with offenses under the FCPA, including paying hundreds of millions of dollars to secure a natural gas plant construction contract to Nigerian officials. KBR pleaded guilty, as did its CEO Albert Jack Stanley, and paid $402 million in fines, as well as $177 million to the SEC. Stanley was sentenced to 2.5 in prison, beginning in 2012.

Siemens AG
Foreign companies that do business onshore in the U.S. also fall under the provisions of the FCPA. According to reports from the New York Times and the SEC, Siemens AG, a German engineering firm, ran afoul of the law in 2008 when it was charged for paying $16 million to the president of Argentina to secure a contract for making Argentinean identity cards. The contract was worth $1 billion to Siemens AG. In total, the company was accused of paying more than $100 million in total to government officials. Eight former employees and contractors continue to face charges in the scheme. Siemens settled with the Department of Justice and paid $1.6 billion in fines in the U.S. and Germany.


BAE Systems
The British aerospace company has been under investigation by British authorities since 1989, making it one of the longest fraud investigations in history. The main concern surrounded a deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia to supply fighter jets. The investigation spread to BAE's dealings in South Africa, Tanzania, Chile, Romania, the CzechRepublic and Qatar. The investigation focused on payments made by BAE through a "go-between" company to foreign officials. The British version of the Department of Justice dropped most of the investigations, citing national security concerns, but U.S. authorities picked up the ball in 2007. According to the Telegraph, BAE settled with U.S. courts and paid a $400 million fine.

Kerry Khan and Michael Alexander
Individuals can also find themselves charged for bribery and fraud. According toe Lubbock Online, in October 2011, two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees were arrested and charged with fraud for taking kickbacks, estimated at over $20 million. Kerry Khan and Michael Alexander are accused of taking bribes from contractors in exchange for being awarded lucrative government contracts, and of inflating invoices to the government and skimming the difference. Khan and Alexander remain in jail pending trial and face maximum sentences of 25 to 40 years.

Alcatel-Lucent SA
At the end of 2010, Bloomberg reported that Alcatel-Lucent, the largest landline phone network company in the world, settled its bribery case with the Department of Justice in 2010 by agreeing to pay $137 million, including $45 million to the SEC. The case revolves around a complex series of money transfers between shell companies and to consultants, resulting in payments being made to foreign officials. Alcatel-Lucent admitted to making improper payments in many African and South American companies.:cool:

When companies pay million or billion dollar fines to the U.S. government to settle wrongdoing, where does that money show up on the government books? I believe BP also paid billions in fines to the U.S. government to settle the oil spill in the gulf a few years ago, but it was never clear to whom the money was sent, other than the government. Does it go to the Treasury?

Good evening, Jack. :2wave:
 
When companies pay million or billion dollar fines to the U.S. government to settle wrongdoing, where does that money show up on the government books? I believe BP also paid billions in fines to the U.S. government to settle the oil spill in the gulf a few years ago, but it was never clear to whom the money was sent, other than the government. Does it go to the Treasury?

Good evening, Jack. :2wave:
Off topic, as usual.
 
That is not relevant. A fulltime employee should earn enough that they do not need foodstamps.

What is your basis for determining how much an employee should earn? If they earn $20,000, why not $22,000? If they earn $75,000, why not $77,000? Admit it, you have no criteria, only sentiment.
 
The problem isn't the subsidies, it is the excessively low pay. The minimum wage should be regulated on a county-wide basis to reflect the cost of living in that area.

This is just changing the subject. If you want to talk about the minimum wage, don't respond to subsidy comments. The point was that if anyone doesn't like corporate welfare, they shouldn't be going after the companies for taking it, they should be going after the government for providing it.
 
Logically, yes. In the misshapen America that has arisen over the last 30 years, that idea is long dead and gone. Feudalism and serfdom now are thought of as "natchrull" ................................

This is just rhetoric. Where's the beef?
 
This is just rhetoric. Where's the beef?

My evidence is the Right and GOP which have been hell bent on removing the US from the 1st level tier of nations. Not that I'm giving the Dems a pass here, as their warm, fuzzy rhetoric about "compromise", "people of faith" , and more "compromise" has essentially made them the doormat of the people who are taking us all on this wild and crazy ride back to the High Dark Ages.........................
 
Why should any community pay to subsidize Walmart's underpaid employees? Currently it is happening in many places with Walmart employees getting food stamps and other subsidies.

Stop voting in people that want to subsidize them then.

:shrug:
 
My evidence is the Right and GOP which have been hell bent on removing the US from the 1st level tier of nations. Not that I'm giving the Dems a pass here, as their warm, fuzzy rhetoric about "compromise", "people of faith" , and more "compromise" has essentially made them the doormat of the people who are taking us all on this wild and crazy ride back to the High Dark Ages.........................

While the Democrats are hamstringing the successful in favor of the hopeless while creating a permanent poverty class.
 
Stop voting in people that want to subsidize them then.

:shrug:

Then wahat is Wallmart to do when a good chunk of their workforce is homeless, hungry and sickly?
 
Besides, the average Walmart wage is already well above minimum wage. :shrug:
 
Then wahat is Wallmart to do when a good chunk of their workforce is homeless, hungry and sickly?

A good chunk of their employees are college students, secondary incomers and the terminally unskilled.
 
While the Democrats are hamstringing the successful in favor of the hopeless while creating a permanent poverty class.

I don't know whether you've taken a look around lately but the "successful" have basically reached the point where they have a free hand to do whatever they want. No one "created" a permanent poverty class. A lot of ignorant people are making illinformed decisions because they are ignorant, not because anyone is manipulating them.........................
 
I don't know whether you've taken a look around lately but the "successful" have basically reached the point where they have a free hand to do whatever they want. No one "created" a permanent poverty class. A lot of ignorant people are making illinformed decisions because they are ignorant, not because anyone is manipulating them.........................

The poverty rate has been 12-15% since the 60s, and the begining of Welfare in America. No ghetto in America has been changed despite being Democrat strongholds for all that time. Democrats need poor people to stay poor, so they can get votes.
 
Yes, when state law allows it, the contract says that membership in the union is no longer voluntary, it is a mandatory condition of employment. Why are you trying to avoid the obvious?

Yes when government doesn't force terms than it is a negotiation.

As long as unions are bared from negotiating representation there should be a min wage.
 
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