[conservatism_IS_compassion]

[Walmart] has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business . . .

People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart . . . save at least 17 percent . . .

The big-hearted progressives on Chicago's City Council . . . have passed a bill that . . . would [have] keep Wal-Marts from locating in the city.

Didn't I hear somewhere that it was a big scandal that poor people in inner cities pay higher prices and than people in the suburbs do?

[.cnI redruM]

Yeah, that sucking sound you here is $M of sales tax revenue leaving urban Chicago.

[prion]

Didn't I hear somewhere that it was a big scandal that poor people in inner cities pay higher prices and than people in the suburbs do?

Big scandal? I dunno. It's always been true. Retailers say it's to make up for the higher rate of shoplifting and vandalism, which seemed fair to me. Even when I lived in one of those neighborhoods and paid higher or drove out of town.