Posted on 01/18/2016 5:41:11 AM PST by Rockitz
Los Angeles residents of impoverished Chinatown were shocked to learn on January 17 that the Walmart they pleaded for years to get would be shut down at 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to the city’s new $15 minimum wage ordinance, and union harassment.
(Update: The closure was described by the company as one of 154 closures “that took into account a number of factors, including financial performance as well as strategic alignment with long-term plans.â€)
Immigrant Hispanic and Asian residents of central Los Angeles campaigned for years for a “big box†retailer to locate in their economically depressed neighborhood to compete against liquor stores that sold a limited number of food items at very high prices. In September 2013, Walmart finally opened a 33,000-square-foot grocery and drug store in the Chinatown area.
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Liberals piously called this negative impact a “reasonable tradeoff worth embracing,†whereas conservatives and business owners called it proof that risky government interference would destroy jobs and put more people on welfare. But there are no independent studies of what a 50 percent, let alone 100 percent increase would do.
Furthermore, Walmart’s closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart, taking sales tax payments away from LA.
Breitbart News reported in late July that local union bosses want their locals exempted from the law, since businesses were already making plans to cut employee head count.
The same month, McDonald’s opened its first robotic restaurant in Phoenix, and hotels in L.A. announced they were planning to reduce guests’ daily room cleaning, or charging extra for doing so.
Private sector union membership has plummeted from almost 40 percent of the workforce in the 1960s to a new low of 6.6 percent in 2015.
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“Liberals. So much smarter than the rest of us! *SMIRK*”
That’s because their ideas are so good, they ought to be law!
She says while typing away on her Apple product...shipped from China. Hypocrites all.
They work at not only a lower wage(supposedly, based on feminist dogma) but they work slower and less capably than many of their male colleagues. That may be un-PC but’s it’s the truth.
Furthermore, Walmart's closure in Los Angeles means that shoppers will still be able to go to neighboring cities to shop at Walmart, taking sales tax payments away from LA.
Well, some of them might be able to, but if the people who begged for the store locally could afford to do that, they would have been doing that. Not everyone who is poor has the means to dash off to the next county to buy groceries.
The do-gooders have been at it again...
Micky D’s was one of the first companies to accept ApplePay.
Sooner or later you’d think people would wonder if these “unintended consequences” by Leftists are, in truth, INTENDED.
That's because our government was too busy telling us how much we could flush.
You're catching on.
They're clueless, at the heart of it.
For all their 'caring', they don't understand, much less give a hoot about anything other than their positions and paychecks and the rest of the world (especially the "poor"), can pound sand when push comes to shove.
A radio host here this morning in Los Angeles named Brian Whitman (very liberal and stupid) simply could not understand why Walmart was closing stores even after it was explained several times to him by his co-host Ben Shapiro about higher costs vs profit to operate store. No profit then no store.
SkyNet?
You stated “ No business actually pays taxes. “
Gee! I didn’t know that. After all, I have only owned my own business since 1979 and have been paying taxes every year. WHAT DID I DO WRONG? Please tell me so that I can recover those hundreds of thousands of dollars I paid in taxes that you state I was not required to pay.
As soon as you cite the exact law that states businessmen don’t have to pay taxes I’m going to get my money back.
You must have been in business longer than I have. That’s probably the reason you know you don’t have to pay taxes and I’m not experienced enough to know.
I’m thankful to you for enlightening me to this matter.
Perhaps if you had taken the time to read my post you would not have said the things you said. I didn’t say the taxes weren’t paid. What I said was that prices go up to reflect the cost of taxes so that in the end the consumer actually pays the cost of the tax in higher prices.
If you can’t understand that then we don’t need to be having the conversation.
Yes, they do indeed pay taxes,at all levels.
Been there, done that, got the tax returns.
You have paper work, to show that you went through the motions just like the rest of us, but in reality, you didn’t pay anything into the treasury, unless you have investments outside of your government salary that earned money that you paid taxes on...........
Money paid to you from government coffers, local, state or federal, came from someone else who paid taxes on their earnings. Any taxes you ‘paid’ on those earnings simply wasn’t given to you, and stayed in the treasury, but did not increase it.
If every person worked for the government, then there would be no one to pay their taxes into the treasury from which your salary is drawn.
You fill out your tax forms and possibly even get a ‘refund’ on your taxes, but that money simply comes from a person who doesn’t work for the government who actually pays money into the treasury, or the government prints it to make up the difference.................
It’s a specious assertion.
Tell my bank account that, on the taxes paid directly or withheld. To the extent you have taxes withheld, then you didn’t “pay taxes” either. I sure as crap don’t have it to spend. And yes, I do have more than the paycheck to deal with and pay taxes on.
Ask the US Treasury/IRS whether or not they received money from me. If not, I’m in for a hell of an audit.
And where did your money come from? Thin air?
Which government activities would you do without? And which provide value for you? Military, for example?
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