The Wal-Mart Problem

Originally Posted by Beestie

I've already added Wal-Mart to the ever-growing list of institutions (and people, I'm proud to say) that, according to marichiko, lie and cheat. And, while we are on the subject of the list, as a consequence of your profound insights into our foreign policy as documented in another thread, I've sent a memo to Condi Rice that we need to dust off "Cold War" and "Domino Theory" and put them back into the forefront of our foreign policy doctrine where they belong.

Glad to see you're paying attention. What thread, BTW?

Originally Posted by Beestie

But, getting back to the topic at hand, I have three questions:

1. Are you saying that California would be better of by $86M if Wal-Mart closed its doors tomorrow? The only way I can make sense of that assertion is to assume that everyone who works at Wal-Mart turned down a higher paying job to work there...

Alternatively, you can link the study and I'll answer my own questions.

No, I am not making that leap of logic. I merely quoted what the study says tax payers must pay for Walmart workers. The figure is on page 10 here:

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/lowwage/walmart.pdf