Mount Orab, OH. Bloggers Weigh in on Town Expenditures for Wal-Mart

Your Tax Dollars at Work (or How Wal-Mart Costs You Money) [No Mount Orab Wal-Mart! Blog]

Money, money, money...Last week, the local newspaper reported that two police officers were added to the Mt. Orab police force. As I noted in an earlier post, most estimates place the yearly total cost of those officers (with salaries, training, and equipment) at about $75,000 per. The article also notes that the officers were added in expectation of the new shopping center anchored by Wal-Mart.

So the Wal-Mart’s not supposed to open until 2011, from what many have said, yet we’re already looking at an expenditure through that time totaling nearly half a million dollars of taxpayer money to pay for the officers. In a town of just 3000 people.

Tell us again how Wal-Mart saves us money?

Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Friday, May 30, 2008

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