1. You are supporting stagnation in the community and are anti-growth and anti-competition. You are also anti-free market. You might want to deny this, but you have now written enough to prove the assertion.
2. You realize that most “mom ‘n pop” stores are over-charging their customers because of their limited buying power or because of simple lack of competition, right? How does this make the community better and why do you confer some kind of moral superiority to them over Wal-Mart?
3. DC government pays an average of $10.50/hour. I don’t get the feeling you have a problem with their hypocrisy in demanding that Wal-Mart pay more? Is the DC government morally corrupt for not paying a subjective “living wage?”
You seem to have the peculiar notion I’m supporting the actions of the DC government and am anti-Walmart. Not so.
I’m all in favor of WM opening a store wherever they want to, and quite agree (as can be seen in some of my posts on this thread by anyone that reading comprehension challenged) that WM has been a boon to the consumer. Many smaller (and larger) stores do indeed overcharge their customers.
But we shouldn’t fool ourselves that the efficiencies created by WM, with all their benefits to consumers, have not come at a price. Cutting out the middleman sounds great, until one day you suddenly realize you are yourself one of the middlemen.
I despise (from a distance) the DC government. Don’t know that much about them.