Wisconsin To Tax That Smile Right Off Of Wal-Mart’s Face
Wisconsin tax auditors say Wal-Mart Stores owes more than $17 million in back corporate income taxes, interest and penalties for 1998, 1999 and 2000.
But to hear Wal-Mart’s side of the story, a little cheating is nothing if done for the greater good, right? RIGHT?? According to Wal-Mart spokesman and legal-eagle John Simley:
“...anything Wal-Mart can do to lawfully reduce its costs allows the company to pass those savings along through lower prices.”
Awesome.
Well, while the $17+ million that Wal-Mart skipped out on could have gone to fund state schools, after-school programs, or other projects, it will be comforting for Wisconsin students to know that as a result of the scheming their Moms and Dads are now able to buy their cool new trapper-keeper for 30 cents cheaper. Plus, the notebook paper inside said trapper-keeper will come in handy as kindling, once schools run out of money and can no longer afford heat. A win-win in my book. Survivorman would be proud.
Several reports, including our own - you can find others here and here - have spelled out approximately how much Wal-Mart has cost states through the use of schemes such as captive REITs. No, they’re not illegal in EVERY state, but its a little disingenuous to proclaim to want to help your fellow man by providing “every day low prices” (Wal-Mart trademark pending?), then search out every tax break imaginable so you can stick it to John and Joan Q. Public on the other end. And please, please don’t use the “everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?” defense. Sears and Kohls, among others, have already publically stated that they don’t use the REIT scheme, and even if they did, that wouldn’t make it right.
Anyway, bottom line: Wisconsin says Wal-Mart owes them $17.7 million. Wal-Mart says no we don’t, and if you make us pay we’ll just charge higher prices and be forced to sell even more low-cost lead-based toys then before. The WI Tax Appeals Commission will consider the matter, and then a state court will decide whether the Tax Appeals Commission considered it wrong. Stay tuned…
Wal-Mart owes back taxes, state says [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Madison - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has avoided millions of dollars in state taxes by paying rent on 87 Wisconsin properties in a way that the state Department of Revenue calls an “abuse and distortion of income.”
As a result, state tax auditors say, Wal-Mart owes more than $17.7 million in back corporate income taxes, interest and penalties for 1998, 1999 and 2000. More could be due for later years.
Revenue Department lawyer Mark Zimmer argues that the world’s largest retailer is not paying its fair share of taxes that support public schools, local police and fire departments and the highways it uses to transport what it sells in Wisconsin.
As a result, Wal-Mart shifts the burden of paying for those services “to individuals and small businesses who are unable to set up such elaborate mechanisms,” Zimmer told the Tax Appeals Commission, which is considering the matter.
The charges are unusually aggressive for the state’s tax-collection agency, and the case is being closely watched by tax professionals. Legislators, too, have become involved; some want to change state law to end the technique Wal-Mart is using.
Wal-Mart says it has not done anything wrong but is merely taking advantage of an overlap of state and federal tax laws: To reduce its taxes and costs, it sets up one subsidiary to run its stores and another subsidiary to own its real estate. The operating subsidiary pays rent to the real estate subsidiary and takes a tax deduction for the rent, even though that money eventually ends up in the corporation’s own pocket.
“Anything Wal-Mart can do to lawfully lower its costs allows the company to pass it along through lower prices,” said company spokesman John Simley. “This is a lawful (tax) structure in Wisconsin.”
Wal-Mart paid $26.2 million in state and local Wisconsin taxes, including property, state income and unemployment taxes and licenses and fees, in the last year, Simley said.
He declined to break down the $26.2 million by type of taxes. But City of Milwaukee records say the company will pay $1.2 million in property taxes on its five stores in the city this year. In Madison, the company will pay $151,654 in property taxes on four properties.
Simley said Wal-Mart also collected $187.2 million in sales taxes for the State of Wisconsin last year - or 4.5% of all yearly sales tax collections in the state.
Caught up in the budgetThe Tax Appeals Commission case is part of the Capitol impasse over the next state budget.
In their version of the state budget, Democrats who control the state Senate outlawed the tax-lowering technique used by Wal-Mart.
The sponsor of that change, Sen. Russ Decker (D-Schofield), said Wal-Mart and others who use the deduction are “scamming the system, and we ought to plug the loophole.”
Wal-Mart is the “poster child” for corporations that don’t pay their fair share of taxes, Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson (D-Beloit) said at Thursday’s meeting of the special legislative committee trying to negotiate a compromise state budget.
“There are many taxes that we pay in Wisconsin,” Simley said.
Other companies use a similar technique, he said, although Wal-Mart is the only company fighting the state about it before the Tax Appeals Commission. In other states, companies including AutoZone Inc. of Memphis, Tenn., have fought similar cases.
A representative of Kohl’s Corp., Menomonee Falls, which owns department stores across the nation, said it does not use the tactic. A Sears spokesman said it also does not use the strategy.
Wal-Mart’s use of the technique also is part of a larger Capitol debate over whether Wisconsin should modify its entire corporate income tax system by instituting “combined reporting.” Under that system, all related companies file one income tax return. Now, all companies doing business in Wisconsin file their own returns, even if two or more of them are owned by a single parent company.
It is only because of this separate reporting status that the technique used by Wal-Mart works.
Decker and Senate Democrats have proposed combined reporting as part of the budget talks. But Gov. Jim Doyle, also a Democrat, opposes it, as does the Republican-dominated Assembly.
Doyle won’t make a decision on whether to sign into law Decker’s proposal to outlaw the Wal-Mart technique until he knows whether it is part of the final budget passed by the Legislature, said Doyle aide Matt Canter.
If that change becomes law, Simley said he did not know what it would mean for Wal-Mart’s prices, expansion plans or employment in Wisconsin.
Wal-Mart is Wisconsin’s largest private employer, with 28,920 workers. The average hourly wage of Wal-Mart’s full-time workers in Wisconsin is $10.91, Simley said.
How it worksMany states are trying to crack down on the technique used by Wal-Mart, commonly called a “captive REIT,” or real estate investment trust.
“In effect, Wal-Mart pays rent to itself and takes a deduction for doing so,” according to the Revenue Department claim.
Here’s how it works:
Wal-Mart sets up two subsidiaries - a company to run its stores, and another entity, called a real estate investment trust, to own the real estate they sit on.
The operating company pays rent to the REIT, taking the rent as a deduction and thus lowering its profits taxed by Wisconsin.
The REIT in turn pays the rent as part of a dividend to the parent company. The dividend is tax-free under state and federal law.
The state Revenue Department contended that the company is organized that way merely to avoid taxes and therefore disallowed the deduction, resulting in the multimillion-dollar dispute.
Simley said that although the structure does save taxes, there are other reasons to be organized that way, including letting specialists in real estate manage the properties while other managers actually run the stores.
States have usually lost their attacks on the REIT strategy elsewhere, said Michael Martens, a lawyer and certified public accountant. He is managing director of the UHY accounting firm in Boston and an expert in the cases.
Wisconsin officials declined to say how their case might differ from those in other states. They noted that decisions of the Tax Appeals Commission can be reviewed by the courts. Both sides expect that to happen in this case.
Richard Pomp, a professor at the University of Connecticut Law School and an expert in state tax law, said he is surprised by Wisconsin’s challenge of Wal-Mart over the REIT deduction. The solution, he said, is not a petition to the Tax Appeals Commission but rather legislation to require combined reporting.
“For a state to not have combined reporting, and then to complain about strategies that are facilitated by a lack of combined reporting, is somewhat disingenuous,” he said.
Decker, the sponsor of Wisconsin’s combined-reporting legislation, said the state should be doing whatever is necessary to collect its fair share of taxes from Wal-Mart.
“It’s just a fairness issue,” he said. “Go down on Main Street - these businesses are being economically disadvantaged to these big corporations.”
Martens said the increasing number of challenges to captive REITs is a sign of the times.
“Everyone is being a little more conscious about how things appear, and states want you to pass the ‘red face test,’ “ he added. “Can you explain what you are doing and do it without a red face?”
Posted by Corey Himrod on Monday, August 27, 2007
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This Just In…Wal-Mart Screws Taxpayers Again!
Kudos to Cory Himrod! You managed to make a post without dipping into the Onion or Daily Show archives. You’re right on top of this newsworthy story which made the front page of yesterday’s paper.
There has been some “discussion” on this blog about REITs, but not nearly enough. REITs have been around since the early 60’s and this “tax loophole” should be closed once and for all.
Although “legal,” Wal-Mart’s use of the REIT simply does not pass the smell test! As the newpaper article pointed out, the state of Wisconsin calls the way Wal-Mart has avoided paying millions of dollars in taxes, “an abuse and distortion of income.”
What did Sam Walton have to say about Wal-Mart’s charitable giving?
“Most of the giving we have done has been either anonymously, or linked to strict requests for no publicity, and I’m not going to go into the financial details of our charitable activities here because I don’t think it’s anybody’s business but our own.”
This is where “Mr. Sam” would be dead wrong! (pun intended) When Wal-Mart is the recipient of government subsidies and trys to rip off taxpayers, it’s EVERYBODY’S business. Also noteworth in the newspaper article were comments by a spokesman for the state of Wisconsin Revenue Department, who said that Wal-Mart is not paying its fair share of taxes that support public schools, local police and fire departments and the highways it uses to transport what it sells in Wisconsin.
Now the Wal-Mart defenders like Nick and RDS will probably try to come back with some lame argument like “Wisconsin is an isolated case.” They would be wrong. They will also probably try to make the case that allowing REITs makes good business sense and is good for the “free market.” They will say doing away with the REIT would be harmful to business. Anyone who thinks this way, should take a look at North Carolina, which is one of the most business-friendly states in the country. North Carolina leads the way in abolishing the REIT.
Get rid of the REIT NOW!
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Monday, August 27 at 02:12 PM
Screwedby,
“Now the Wal-Mart defenders like Nick and RDS will probably try to come back with some lame argument like “Wisconsin is an isolated case.””
Not me, I’m all for getting rid of subsides and REIT’s as well, as long as it is across the board!!
“Although “legal,” Wal-Mart’s use of the REIT simply does not pass the smell test!”
It may not pass your smell test, but as you said, it is ‘legal’ and as Wal-Mart doesn’t make REIT laws, it’s the states fault, for making it ‘legal’ in the first place!!
“Also noteworth in the newspaper article were comments by a spokesman for the state of Wisconsin Revenue Department, who said that Wal-Mart is not paying its fair share of taxes that support public schools, local police and fire departments and the highways it uses to transport what it sells in Wisconsin.”
When I lived in Wisconsin, property taxes (for public schools, fire & police), were billed to property owners, has that changed to where now the property owned decides how much they will pay? As for highway usage, that comes from fuel taxes, if Wisconsin is not requiring Wal-Mart to buy fuel or a permit, that again is their fault, not Wal-Mart’s!!
You see, it’s not very good, to tell people they are allowed to do things and then come back ‘after the fact’ and say you changed your mind, so now they owe you!!
“Wal-Mart says no we don’t, and if you make us pay we’ll just charge higher prices and be forced to sell even more low-cost lead-based toys then before.”
I truly doubt that Wal-Mart actually said, “be forced to sell even more low-cost lead-based toys then before”, is WMW stretching the truth here?
RDS in
Monday, August 27 at 08:41 PM
Screwed by you have again lost your marbles and are arguing a mute point.
Everything is legal from all that I have read. My understanding is this is the Corporation’s Taxes of
Income. Nothing directly to do with “property” taxes.
These are two separate issues. Too long to go into all of it.
I would agree that overall these REIF’s should be abolished
nationwide but they are promoted by both parties.
If I were still in a business large or small, I would structure it the same way. Save on taxes wherever you can. (get rid of the IRS, support the fair tax proposal). To me it is very disengenuous of WMW to distort this issue and also what you Screwed By have posted.
I am by no means a lover of WM but this is ridiculous to argue-- just change the law, or can’t they get the votes to
change the statute??
For over 40 years I have loved studying law and politics and
it amazes me the ignorance of people such as on here as to the law and facts. Ah heck, have a Blessed Day, y’all and let Wisconson’s Tax Appeals court sort it out.
The Sage in
Monday, August 27 at 09:47 PM
This is Why I Don’t Pay Attention to You, “Sage”
Who’s “lost his marbles?”
First of all, get the term right. It’s REIT. On one hand you say… “I would agree that overall these REIF’s should be abolished nationwide...”
Then you say...“If I were still in a business large or small, I would structure it the same way.”
So in other words you would structure your business around something you believe should be abolished. Does that sound logical to you? You seem to lack a basic understanding of what a REIT is, “Sage.” A small business does not have the ability or resources to utilize the concept of a REIT the way Wal-Mart does.
You’re right about one thing. Changing the law is key, and that’s exactly what Wisconsin and other states are working on. There is nothing “moot” about the topic of REITs, and there’s nothing disingenuous about arguing that they should be abolished.
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Monday, August 27 at 11:14 PM
ScrewedbyWal-Mart, you truely have lost your marbles with your logic!!
Let me ask you a simple question… if you are an individual or a business would you not take advantage of tax savings by using current laws… I’m talking FOLLOW THE LAWS AS THEY ARE WRITTEN? Do you take tax deductions today for such things as mortgage interest, dependents, retirement contributions whether you agree with those deductions or not?
mary in
Tuesday, August 28 at 06:14 AM
You Should Be Addressing Your “Observation” to Someone Else, Mary
Maybe you should address your concerns to K-Mart, Target, Sears, and Kohls’s Department Store, Mary. None of them “take advantage” of the REIT in Wisconsin.
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, August 28 at 07:37 AM
“None of them (Kmart/Sears, Target, and Kohl’s) “take advantage” of the REIT in Wisconsin.”
Is that a documented fact, Screwed, or just heresay?
Show us “where"…
Bill
Bill in
Tuesday, August 28 at 08:31 AM
Well if that’s tru then I guess K-Mart, Target, Sears and Kohls need to hire some better tax accountants because they are leaving legal money on the table and that’s a major NO NO in the business world
Mary in
Tuesday, August 28 at 01:07 PM
You’ll Just Have to Take My Word For it, BIll
“Is that a documented fact, Screwed, or just heresay?”
I was told this by one of the two people who wrote the original story. But just to be sure, since I live in the “backyard” of Kohls’ corporate Home Office, I contacted their real estate department and they confirmed it.
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, August 28 at 01:57 PM
Screwedby WM—oh how thou liest (is the truth in thee?)!
You state you pay no attention to my posts> Then you corrected me on the REIF as I typed incorrectly. You further
read my post and caught the error I typed of mute in stead\
of the correct word as you posted of “moot”. My legal writings of 40 years need a tune up.
So obviously you do “pay attention” to the profound posts
as made by the great, one and only Sage!! Thank you for reading, may I add perhaps you should be “mute” for a time.
Mary you had a good come back. Sure we all take advantage of everything in the law as long as it is in there.
The Sage in
Tuesday, August 28 at 02:56 PM
“I contacted their real estate department and they confirmed it”
Wow, I never knew you could just call a company up and they would produce that type of information for the asking. I wonder if their bosses knew they were passing on corporate information, most likely without receiving permission.
Mary in
Tuesday, August 28 at 04:06 PM
I’m Pretty Sure the Boss Knew, Mary!
Someone like you would probably go through the “switchboard”. It helps when you have a name and know who to ask for. In this case, it would be “the boss.”
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, August 28 at 04:42 PM
Pay Attention “Sage”
“You state you pay no attention to my posts...”
That’s right, Sage...I usually don’t. I am however fascinated with the many sayings of that great “Sage of Baltimore,” H.L. Mencken.
He once said, “It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
Which one are you, “Sage?”
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Tuesday, August 28 at 05:28 PM
So you have a name ScrewedbyWal-Mart?.... one that people will actually remember and think highly of?… You’re so well known and respected that you can call “the boss”. I wonder what that name is? I wonder how well connected you may be to WMW and the rest of the anti-walmart crowd.
Somehow I’m not quite believing that one when you look at how much time you spend on this blog. In your case “the glove doesn’t fit”, but if you are the example of what the anti-walmart crowd stands for then I’m pretty sure millions of americans will be shopping at Walmart for years to come.
Mary in
Tuesday, August 28 at 08:49 PM
There is also Sam’s Real Estate Business Trust incorporated in Delaware doing the same state tax scam/dodge as well. The IRS sent out notices about these schemes being illegal going back to 1995. But neither the Clintons or the Bush crowd have any appetite to prosecute the WalMart/Walton crime syndicate for anything like tax evasion. The campaign donations ended that threat long ago.
WalMart/Waltons- In addition to our business tax dodges we need another $30 billion in Federal Estate Tax breaks. We can’t pay our home mortgages or health insurance on our $80-$100 billion in personal wealth. How do you expect us to get by?
SanDiegoView in another Ayn Rand book burning party
Thursday, August 30 at 01:13 AM
I can’t speak for WMW, Mary, but I can tell you with “the rest of the anti-walmart crowd” Screwed is “well connected”!
...but if you are the example of what the anti-walmart crowd stands for...
The Anti Wal-Mart Movement is a big tent filled with individuals that stand for all sorts of things. The one thing we have in common is we’re, duh, anti Wal-Mart.
“There is no perceived risk in attacking Wal-Mart anymore. They have gone from being a business success story to being a cultural villain.” ~ Eric Dezenhall
Ken V in Texas
Thursday, August 30 at 03:26 AM
Mary,
“The Anti Wal-Mart Movement is a big tent” ~ Ken V.
In other words, it is like a circus!! Some of the clowns, are SDV and Screwedby!!
RDS in
Thursday, August 30 at 02:49 PM
In All Humility, Mary
You apparently misread my last post. In re-reading it, I perhaps I could have worded it more clearly.
What I meant to say is that it helps to have the name of the person who is most likely going to be able to give you the information you seek when you call into an organization be it Target, or Kohl’s or Wal-Mart. Having a reliable contact is crucial. If you are concerned that an employee might “get in trouble” with his boss for revealing certain information Mary, you’re obviously talking to people on the wrong end of the “ corporate food chain.”
Although it’s somewhat flattering that you would even misinterpret my remark to mean that “I had a name,” the humbling reality is, I’m not that important, and I never claimed to be.
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Thursday, August 30 at 10:38 PM
In other words, it is like a circus!!
More like a tent revival where we preach the evils* of the Beast of Bentonville!
*Don’t get your Depends in a twist, RDS, it’s a joke!
Ken V in Texas
Friday, August 31 at 04:53 AM
What’s That Make You, RDS?
“In other words, it is like a circus!!”
That must make you the trained Ass in the center ring, RDS!
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Friday, August 31 at 07:33 AM
Screwedby,
“That must make you the trained Ass in the center ring, RDS!”
Sorry, but I’m not a part of YOUR circus, remember, I’m just sitting back, watching your sideshow!! Do you really have a trained Ass in your circus, must be SDV!! You are the clown, Alex is the ‘sideshow barker’ and Ken is the ring master!!
RDS in
Friday, August 31 at 09:44 AM
...and Ken is the ring master!!
Thanks for the accolade, RDS, and who doesn’t like the circus?
“You can fight the gods and still have fun.” ~ Yugoslavian proverb
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, September 01 at 03:59 AM
“Sorry, but I’m not a part of YOUR circus...”
Oh, YES you are RDS. Unfortunately, we’ve had to suffer through a few too many of your posts on this blog as well as the other one. This puts you right under “the big tent,” whether you care to admit it or not!
In fact RDS, I’ll take this analogy a little further. YOU more closely resemble the clown than anyone else. The clown often creates a distraction or diversion, not only at the circus but at the rodeo as well. While the clown is creating the distraction or diversion, other performers are doing the more serious work as they put themselves in harm’s way by sticking their head in the mouth of the lion or taming the tigers or riding the bull.
While some are taking on the “Beast of Bentonville,” you try to divert the reader’s attention with your all-too-often vapid, insipid, and irrelevant commentary.
We do like to keep you around for entertainment purposes, RDS!
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Saturday, September 01 at 07:12 PM
...with your all-too-often vapid, insipid, and irrelevant commentary.
Rolls right off the tongue, Screwed. :o)
And in the center ring I direct your attention to the…
<i...mounting sociopolitical backlash to Wal-Mart’s size and aggressive business practices.</i>
Ken V in Texas
Sunday, September 02 at 04:49 AM
Screwedby,
“This puts you right under “the big tent,” whether you care to admit it or not!”
Wrong, I am far from being in the ANTI Wal-Mart tent!! Nor, am I in the PRO Wal-Mart tent, I am more on the outside, looking at both sides and trying to see the ‘true picture’, minus all the bias!! While your side looks for some ‘deep dark’ conspiracy to take over the world, by destroying it, some like me, see a retail chain, trying to make a profit, not unlike every other business in the world!! Just because one business is larger than another, doesn’t make the big one ‘evil’ and the smaller one, a ‘saint”, both are out for the same thing, making a profit, gaining market share and increasing same store sales!! Businesses exist for one reason, to make a PROFIT, period!!
RDS in
Sunday, September 02 at 10:30 AM
I Bet You Could...
I bet if you tried, you could talk or spin yourself out of existence, RDS! In fact, I wish you would!
OK...let’s simplify this so you get it. Is this website a pro Wal-Mart website or an anti Wal-mart website? And before you get your gun “all cocked,” no, being “anti” and being constructive or helpful are not mutually exclusive.
By the fact you keep shining around here, by default puts you under the ANTI Wal-Mart tent. I think you’d feel more appreciated in the Wal-Mart Revival Tent, RDS.
ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America
Sunday, September 02 at 11:19 AM
...While your side looks for some ‘deep dark’ conspiracy to take over the world...
“Our priorities are that we want to dominate North America first, then South America, and then Asia, and then Europe,” ~ Wal-Mart’s President and CEO David Glass told USA Today business reporter Lorrie Grant November 10, 1999.
Please, RDS, do a little research before you start typing.
Ken V in Texas
Monday, September 03 at 05:17 AM
Money first and not giving a damn about people even on Labor Day-
RDS and Nick, you’re my kind of people.
Judas in eternal damnation
Monday, September 03 at 08:47 AM
Labor Day is a Communist holiday. Since the Reds started their plot to overthrow Capitalism, they have managed to infiltrate the highest levels of our society. Now we have a holidy to honor Communism! What about Capital day? You know, Capital, that pesky green stuff that CREATES jobs, helps people buy homes through loans, generates tax revenues, builds roads and bridges, etc?
Let’s honor the small business guy with a dream, who puts up his life savings and works 18 hour days to achieve something! This guy creates a product or service, creates jobs, creates tax revenue and betters our society. Not only does he have to compete in a difficult marketplace but government bureaucrats do everything they can to keep him down! When he dies, they want 55% of the things he’s worked his whole life to accumulate. See, your money doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to politicians. What you get to keep is what they let you have. If there’s any left over at death, they show up to take it.
Again, let’s honor capital, which has created 100% of private sector jobs. How much wealth has been created by unions? How many new jobs were created by unions? How many guys digging ditches create wealth? Why not honor the people who create something instead of picking on them, suing them, indicting them and generally just harassing them?
The US Labor Day was originially on May 1st, the traditional Communist holiday, May Day. President Grover Cleveland moved it to September in order to appease the Knights of Labor, crush a strike, and not alienate labor votes in an election year. Incidentally, the Knights Of Labor were closely associated with the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, I think Robert Byrd was probably with the KKK as a Kleagle during Grover Cleveland’s tenure in office.
Nick in
Monday, September 03 at 02:31 PM
You’re a Throwback to the 1950’s Aren’t You, Nick?
“Since the Reds started their plot to overthrow Capitalism, they have managed to infiltrate the highest levels of our society.”
I tried to tell people this a long time ago and look where it got me! That “Red Scare” stuff didn’t work then, and it won’t work now, pal!
Senator Joseph McCarthy in total embarrassment
Monday, September 03 at 09:09 PM
Ken V,
““Our priorities are that we want to dominate North America first, then South America, and then Asia, and then Europe,” ~ Wal-Mart’s President and CEO David Glass told USA Today business reporter Lorrie Grant November 10, 1999.”
I believe he was talking about the RETAIL MARKET, not the WORLD!!
RDS in
Tuesday, September 04 at 11:56 AM
“Labor Day is a Communist holiday.”
Nick the patriot imbecile.
This is where the communist Chinese celebrate the import of American jobs, exports back to America of Chinese made crap goods and the benefits going to support the People’s Liberation Army.
Nick the WalMart patriot wants to thank Bentonville on behalf of the John Birch Society for all the financial support given to the Chinese communist.
WalMart- We are not just financial supporters of the Chinese communist government as tax dodgers in the United States. We are destroyers of good paying American jobs and giving the dream of advanced payday loans for America’s families. Where is your puppy?
SanDiegoView in
Wednesday, September 05 at 08:26 AM
I believe he was talking about the RETAIL MARKET, not the WORLD!!
Duh! The WORLD RETAIL MARKET!
You honestly believe anti Wal-Marters think Bentonville wants to take over the world in a Pinky & The Brain sort of way?
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. ~ Euripides
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, September 08 at 06:32 AM
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