[MinorityRepublican]

[The Blitherer]

I really have no problem with this. It's not illegal, it's just smart.

[kinoxi]

Sound business model. Why would they do it any other way?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Good! Helps reduce costs. The less the gov't whacks Walmart, the less I pay.

[goodnesswins]

And, if they didn't, Shareholders would cry foul! They're being smart business managers.....sheesh. Only the idiots will find something wrong with this.....esp. MSM idiots!

[Ode To Ted Kennedys Liver]

What a scam. This is nothing more than bold-face theft.

[Snoopers-868th]

Wonder if I too can pay rent on the house I own?

[RobRoy]

Lower taxes mean lower prices. ;)

[AbeKrieger]

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone - a la labor unions. When the libs start pushing this issue they better make sure they have a clean house for the tax man... which they of course do not.

This issue will die a quite death except for a limited activist or two.

[pabianice]

Why not? The Clintons have done that at their NY spiders' nest since they bought the place. And they use OUR money to do it.

[American_Centurion]

And if Target, Kohl's, Kroger, K-Mart, and the rest aren't doing the same thing they're stupid.

If Wal-Mart isn't the only one doing this, then it's just another hatchet job article.

[Kevmo]

Bump for later reading

[kylaka]

Yesterday, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer included elimination of the loophole as part of his proposed budget, a fix he said would bring the state $83 million a year.

The question is, who do you trust to spend the $83 million wisely, and get the biggest bang for each buck ? One will use it to attract more customers. The other will use it to attract more votes.

[Gabz]

If any other store was named in the headline this would be a non-story - so therefore the focus is on WALMART!!!!!!!!

[Chode]

kinda like when tedturner sells advertizing for tmc on tnt and visaversa, nbc and msnbc, etc... they can charge what ever rate that is most advantageous to the parent company to take advantage of and write off.

[Wuli]

The states that close this "loophole" will simply cost the Walmart customers in their state more money.

Of course that's what those who want to close this loophole want to do - take more money out of the producers in the economy and turn it over to the government(taxpayer)-dependent institutions.

[Doohickey]

Gosh, maybe if Federal, State and local governments didn't view property owners as streams of income this wouldn't be a problem.