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Alderman: Closing CVS In East Garfield Park ‘Amounts To Theft’ (Chicago)
CBS Chicago ^
| 2/26/2017
| Nancy Harty
Posted on 02/27/2017 8:21:03 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96
hmmmmm. Stop selling cigarettes wasn’t as popular as they thought I guess.
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posted on
02/27/2017 8:44:24 AM PST
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
To: Mr. K
“Why are they closing? This author seems to have left that out.”
This is democrat-run Chicago. Businesses aren’t supposed to make money, they’re supposed to cater to the community.
To: simpson96
Leftists don’t like it when Atlas Shrugs.
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posted on
02/27/2017 8:51:14 AM PST
by
TheDon
(MAGA!)
To: simpson96
And if the dumb city had not given tax breaks to CVS, Mom and Pop might still be open.
To: simpson96
They stopped selling drugs on the corner in that neighborhood ? who knew ?
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posted on
02/27/2017 8:53:09 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
To: TheDon
“Leftists don’t like it when Atlas Shrugs.”
*applause*
To: PGR88
Indeed. Garfield Park is a war zone.
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posted on
02/27/2017 8:55:27 AM PST
by
Lurker
(America burned the witch.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:00:04 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
To: simpson96
As far as I know, Alderman Jason Ervin is free to put up the capital and take the risk and open a pharmacy in his own district. Right?
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:00:42 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(Democrats continue their crusade against normal.)
To: dfwgator
“Ultimately they are going to demand Tax-Payer supported government-run stores in The Hood.”
“Store” to me, implies a place where currency is exchanged for goods. What they are demanding is more along the lines if a distribution center..
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:00:45 AM PST
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: SoftballMominVA
whatever...if you have to bribe someone to open a business or keep one open, there may be something amiss. I saw TV commercials here in Va. advertising for businesses to move to NY and offering a tax break. What they don’t mention is when those breaks expire you’re screwed as a business...you’re going to have to pack up and leave anyway! Stupid people who fall for that aren’t going to be in business for long anyway.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:03:32 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(The guys who picked last season's loser are already excited about next season's loser.)
To: simpson96
Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaksProbably CVS lost more than that amount in shoplifting and robberies.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:03:46 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: simpson96
Believe Soros has an interest in CVS???
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:04:46 AM PST
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: gr8eman
I have seen those ads. I have read articles claiming Cuomo made it known those ads were to advance his political career than actually entice any business to relocate to NY.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:05:45 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: PGR88
Add in Austin and you get a BINGO!
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:08:54 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:09:28 AM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: C19fan
The ads made me laugh out loud! The same people moving down here aren’t smart enough to know their ideas are stupid.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:16:15 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(The guys who picked last season's loser are already excited about next season's loser.)
To: usconservative
East Garfield, West Garfield, Austin and North Lawndale...the heart of the West Side ‘hood.
And it used to be such a nice area till the early 60s....
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:19:07 AM PST
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: Mr. K
According to this
neighborhood discussion forum, CVS was already failing in 2014. Apparently, the economic development strategy was to bring in businesses with a more upscale clientele, hoping that that upscale folks would move into da hood. One local said a Dollar Store would have been more useful.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:38:08 AM PST
by
AZLiberty
(A is now A once again.)
To: simpson96
Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaks to open at the East Garfield Park location about five years ago.Do the math.
If AFTER $1 million in tax breaks, the company is losing money at the store, they'd be losing even more money BEFORE the tax breaks.
If the company were making money at the store, they'd keep it open.
Of course politicians, especially liberal politicians, that caters to a low educated demographic, can't understand this.
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posted on
02/27/2017 9:42:17 AM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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