D.C. Mayor Vetoes 'Living Wage' Bill Targeting Large Retailers
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The government job is to be Robin HoodMayor did the right thing. City government has no right to be robin hood. Had they passed this bill, Walmart would've pulled out on the stores they were building east of the river. Have yall nikkas seen the grocery stores east of the river? There are none
You don't want them starting a trend whereby the government is deciding what businesses do and don't do.
please show me a study to back up this claim
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Up her on Canada workers at a Walmart tried to get it unionized and they did. You know what Walmart did? Walmart closed that store
Malik
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Great documentary
In the documentary, there are former Wal-mart employees (corporate) saying they used to ride around small towns planning where to build the new Wal-mart location and how to put different small stores out of business
Right, cuz that has never happened before. Can't start now....better to let the businesses tell government what to do 
The government job is to provide things for society that individuals can't on their own
A big part of this is being the police of corporate greed.
They have failed and continue to do so
Don't take this the wrong way, but most people only speak about this stuff in general terms and don't really follows how unions work or what happens afterwards. Wal-Mart used that bully tactic one more time in Canada and then finally had to give in as there was a unionized Wal-Mart in Canada. What happened afterwards was that Wal-Mart then refused to agree to any beneficial terms as the contract went through arbitration. The arbitrator was very-Wal-Mart biased and praised their union model and basically refused to give the workers and union anything. Due to that failure, the union was then voted out by the workers. The arbitrators in NY, DC, etc. tend to be more concerned with "doing justice." It would likely be an alternate scenario unless somehow Wal-Mart got the three people it absolutely needed to get to have things go in their favor.
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by taxing a select few higher than others? thats a terrible plan. City government's role is to try to spur private investment and job creation within the city. by passing this bill you would be doing the complete opposite of both. The mayor had enough common sense to realize this.
Eh all I was pointing out that Walmart would shut it doors before raising the wages of its employees. I never researched the case etc. Just remember it being in Quebec, and Walmart closing the doors on that store using the excuse it wasn't profitable