How Wal-mart Has Used Public Money In Your State

[hipeter924]

A secret behind Wal-Mart’s rapid expansion in the United States has been its extensive use of public money. This includes more than $1.2 billion in tax breaks, free land, infrastructure assistance, low-cost financing and outright grants from state and local governments around the country. In addition, taxpayers indirectly subsidize the company by paying the healthcare costs of Wal-Mart employees who don’t receive coverage on the job and instead turn to public programs such as Medicaid. This website brings together available information on both kinds of subsidies involved in Wal-Mart’s “double-dipping.” In the future we will add data on other ways Wal-Mart relies on taxpayers to finance its growth.

Despite those arguing in another thread that Wal-Mart is the champion of the free market, when it is anything but. Found a good site that exposes how much Wal-Mart is costing US taxpayers in corporate welfare, in exchange for attacking the minimum wage and workers rights: Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch - brought to you by Good Jobs First

The list of biggest subsidies to its distribution centers : Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch - brought to you by Good Jobs First

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

A secret behind Wal-Mart’s rapid expansion in the United States has been its extensive use of public money. This includes more than $1.2 billion in tax breaks, free land, infrastructure assistance, low-cost financing and outright grants from state and local governments around the country. In addition, taxpayers indirectly subsidize the company by paying the healthcare costs of Wal-Mart employees who don’t receive coverage on the job and instead turn to public programs such as Medicaid. This website brings together available information on both kinds of subsidies involved in Wal-Mart’s “double-dipping.” In the future we will add data on other ways Wal-Mart relies on taxpayers to finance its growth.

Despite those arguing in another thread that Wal-Mart is the champion of the free market, when it is anything but. Found a good site that exposes how much Wal-Mart is costing US taxpayers in corporate welfare, in exchange for attacking the minimum wage and workers rights: Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch - brought to you by Good Jobs First

The list of biggest subsidies to its distribution centers : Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch - brought to you by Good Jobs First

OMG! That's awful. WalMart should shut down now!
Who needs those lower paying jobs?

I'm sure welfare payments will drop once all their employees are out of work.
And the government doesn't need the $8 billion they paid in income taxes in 2013 or the $8.1 billion they paid this year.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

A "tax break" isn't "public money". If the corporation wasn't there generating income, there wouldn't be any money on which to offer a tax break. Furthermore, all the inducements communities offer Wal-Mart have to do with the large number of jobs they bring into those communities, and on top of that, Wal-Mart stores represent the #1 generator of municipal and county sales tax revenues in many areas of the country. Public money? Sure, there's lots of it in communities with Wal-Mart stores, because they're the ones generating a pile of that public money.

 

[Mr. H.]

Most if not all big operations such as Wal Mart are offered incentive packages to locate in a community. Hell, even our small town has a Tax Increment Financing district to attract and keep retailers large and small.