[pgkdan]

Walmart’s business model is to attract lower income customers...no one said that was a bad thing. What is not such a great thing is that they pay so poorly that their employees rely on state assistance. THAT’s the bad thing. Why are tax payers bailing out a retailer who has the ability and profitability to pay a decent wage? I do not wish my tax dollars to pay $$ because a large private company hasn’t figured out how to provide benefits to their employees.

Again you're wrong and in way over your head. You don't know enough about Free market conservatism to carry your trolling any further. It is NOT Walmart's duty or responsibility to ensure that it's employees sustain themselves. It is there responsibility to pay for work received...and if that part time single mother with five baby daddies can't afford to buy a flat screen TV working part time as a cashier I don't see that as wal Mart's fault.

What's your solution? A mandatory "Living Wage"? If you think that tax dollars that are redistributed to the poor are a subsidy to Walmart you really are at the wrong site.

[conservaKate]

If you think that tax dollars that are redistributed to the poor are a subsidy to Walmart you really are at the wrong site.
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So you don’t think this amounts to corporate welfare? Giving large box stores tax breaks other businesses don’t get? (no I don’t like taxes either). And you don’t think the state paying medical benefits to uninsured
WORKING people is to the benefit of the business who won’t (not can’t...but won’t) pay employee benefits?

I’m a conserative in every sense of the word. And I do not believe it is my obligation to bail out businesses...let alone bail out businesses that make a profit.