Elizabeth Warren announces run for President
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Warren lambasting and proposing the breakup of giant companies may come to haunt her chances. Yes, people need jobs, and these huge companies provide jobs to hourly workers, but I believe they should only be allowed to create or provide jobs without the subsidies local communities give away, which in my opinion is a form of "corporate welfare". Fine, you want to build in MY community, great, but please, don't come to MY local legislators and ask for a handout, if you can't build a factory, a warehouse and pay your way for roads and other infrastructure to run your business, don't even think of asking the locals for monetary assistance-subsidy tax breaks. here's why, Walmart in MY community once had a reasonably sized store but the community outgrew that one, so, Walmart decided to build a great big mall and put a Sam's club in it, with a gas station and a car wash too, it's called a SUPER CENTER. Spring ahead a couple of years, now here comes Walmart trying to lowball the tax assessments, and get the amount they pay in taxes on that new property lowered to the level of their old closed up store. Even after the county and state already gave them subsidies and provided infrastructure to support their mega-center, it's called what this county-state terms as "dark stores". Read about it: wisconsingazette.com/views/about-the-wa... "About the Walmart Dark Store Tax Loophole paid for by Wisconsin homeowners" Warren proposing the breakup of Amazon and etc. IMHO is the wrong approach. Yes, we want jobs, and good paying jobs, but not at the cost of breaking up large corporations, we just want them to pay their own way, and not ask for handouts to better their bottom lines (profits). And get this, the community where this Walmart was built isn't patrolled by a large city police or fire department, therefore, the county sheriff must respond to shoplifting calls, and local fire departments must respond to fire-rescue-emergency calls because Somers Wisconsin does not have a large police force or large firefighting capabilities, in turn, the county and city local taxpayers are on the hook (must pay) for these services. If a large fire were to break out at this newer Walmart, and if there were more than one fire at a time, Somers would need to rely upon other local communities for support, also costing taxpayers locally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers,_Wisconsin somers.org/?q=node/33#.XIjDJHdFxok
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Dockadams Wrote:Warren lambasting and proposing the breakup of giant companies may come to haunt her chances. Yes, people need jobs, and these huge companies provide jobs to hourly workers, but I believe they should only be allowed to create or provide jobs without the subsidies local communities give away, which in my opinion is a form of "corporate welfare". Fine, you want to build in MY community, great, but please, don't come to MY local legislators and ask for a handout, if you can't build a factory, a warehouse and pay your way for roads and other infrastructure to run your business, don't even think of asking the locals for monetary assistance-subsidy tax breaks. here's why, Walmart in MY community once had a reasonably sized store but the community outgrew that one, so, Walmart decided to build a great big mall and put a Sam's club in it, with a gas station and a car wash too, it's called a SUPER CENTER. Spring ahead a couple of years, now here comes Walmart trying to lowball the tax assessments, and get the amount they pay in taxes on that new property lowered to the level of their old closed up store. Even after the county and state already gave them subsidies and provided infrastructure to support their mega-center, it's called what this county-state terms as "dark stores". Read about it: wisconsingazette.com/views/about-the-wa... "About the Walmart Dark Store Tax Loophole paid for by Wisconsin homeowners" Warren proposing the breakup of Amazon and etc. IMHO is the wrong approach. Yes, we want jobs, and good paying jobs, but not at the cost of breaking up large corporations, we just want them to pay their own way, and not ask for handouts to better their bottom lines (profits). And get this, the community where this Walmart was built isn't patrolled by a large city police or fire department, therefore, the county sheriff must respond to shoplifting calls, and local fire departments must respond to fire-rescue-emergency calls because Somers Wisconsin does not have a large police force or large firefighting capabilities, in turn, the county and city local taxpayers are on the hook (must pay) for these services. If a large fire were to break out at this newer Walmart, and if there were more than one fire at a time, Somers would need to rely upon other local communities for support, also costing taxpayers locally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers,_Wisconsin somers.org/?q=node/33#.XIjDJHdFxok Great post but it contradicts your centrist support. Centrist compromising is what allowed Wal-Mart and Amazon to run away with the American livelihood.
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that guy in AZ Wrote:Dockadams: Wisconsin is a prime example of how communities get screwed by big corporations. Foxconn was going to produce lots of jobs for Wisconsin, but didn't, and the subsidy kept going up. The picture of Trump and Walker side by side with shovels in their hands will trigger your gag reflex. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-jobs-deal-subsidy-governor-scott-walker One hundred years ago, Wisconsin was one of the most progressive states in the nation, but the recent members of the Republican party have messed it up so much that they are not even willing to allow the newly-elected Democratic governor do his job. I know. $4.5B worth. There ain't no way Foxconn was ever going to provide 13,000 jobs, and I know that there are NOT enough apartments or rental properties or homes for rent or sale in this area to accommodate that many workers. Walker and trump were blowhards, and now the factory isn't going to manufacture anything, it's now a research facility. The way some economists figure it, Wisconsin taxpayers will be on the hook for the largest subsidy this state has ever allowed for at least 11 years, absolutely ridiculous. Local residents are fuming about plans to rework the interstate entrance and exit ramps and how much land they'll be giving up for next to nothing (eminent domain), not to mention the waste of the environment too. First link ignore the trump ad. youtube.com/watch?v=pPU1VH5AR-w youtube.com/watch?v=Cns4TLQBLNc This might be why the DNC has decided to hold their convention in Milwaukee. Will the far left candidates participate? who knows?
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Schmidt Wrote:The big box stores like Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowes, Barnes and Nobel put a lot of Mom and Pop stores out of business in the past couple of decades. Adding to that... Block Buster Video practically killed every single locally owned video store in North America, and where is Block Buster now! It peaked in 2005; but was bankrupt in 2010.
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