The Wal-Mart Debate
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If Wal-Mart Comes To Town, There Will Be Winners And Losers

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"Many of the development packages provide that a new 'Big Box' will be able to retain all sales taxes collected for a given number of years in order to help finance the construction and debt costs of the new facility," Shils stated in a 1997 report. "When this happens the local government and the school districts which depend on sales and real estate tax revenues find themselves in desperate financial condition since the small retailers which have been displaced are not providing revenues and sales tax to the schools and property and real estate taxes to the community."
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CEO Compensation 871 times as high as
U.S. Wal-Mart Workers, 50,000 times as much as Chinese Workers
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Siting (See Page 27)

A new Walmart is being sited on a previous Home Base site and there are no objections from the community.

Single tenant large retail establishments should not be allowed near residentialareas.

Single tenant large retail establishments use land inefficiently.

Single tenant large retail establishments do not fit into a walkable community.

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