“The controls are the result of the Durbin amendment to last year’s Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. They were enacted at the behest of big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Walgreen’s, which stand to gain a multimillion-dollar windfall....”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204831304576597173130633798.html
Etc.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=wal-mart+durbin+site:online.wsj.com
Etc.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=walmart+durbin+site:www.forbes.com
“...Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go... I owe my soul to the Company Store..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUKXxGoXR9I&feature=related
I give you credit for supporting your claims. This is rare among trolls, so I must conclude that you are not a troll.
I have a serious problem with Walmart trying to create unfair advantages like this. Nonetheless, the good they do, to my mind, outweighs the negative.
Now, to answer your question: Are such actions Right-leaning, or Left-leaning? The answer is: Neither. These actions are Corporatist. A corporation will attempt to survive in any free market or socialist political environment, in any way it can. Obviously, a corporation cannot survive a communist environment, but we are not a communist environment.