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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Pamela Joy Ellison wrote: > Yes, Close down Wal-Mart if you must, but there are a whole bunch of > other employers just as reprehensible as them, they just happen to be > perhaps the most successful at it. They are only the tip of the > iceberg, so if you are going to close them down, make certain you > understand that laws need to be created and upheld indiscriminately for > ALL companies of this nature, so, Target, Mervyns and like may have to > go to, and most likely Best Buy and CVS and many others. I'd like to see them go too, biggest first, and so on, down to the lowest possible size that can survive. >From the other direction, we should by city structure be encouraging small businesses and co-ops, smallest first. An owner or co-op run coffeehouse or restaruant or law firm or gas station. Local. Close. Micro-loans. A cap should be put on TIF, so is is of interest only to small concerns, not enuf $$$ to interest the big developers. The money saved should be invested in small businesses and co-ops. Back to getting rid of the big boxes: what is the ranking of them by size? Wal-Mart is biggest, so it goes first. What are the next 3 or 4, by rank? Where do Target and Best Buy fall? I like Target as a target, because they have taken a lot of tax money and tax writeoffs, and then reneged on many of their promises, shipping jobs out of the area. They are the ones who busted the living wage laws in both cities - it would be nice to punish them for it. Let us have no more Twin City land cleared for a big parking lot for another big box. There should be no more of these constructed here, ever. I'd like to see St Paul a city of small businesses, co-ops, parks, public schools and libraries. Much better public transportation; PRT would be ideal. Billboards gone. Big corporations leaving, figuring (correctly) that we will give them nothing for free, and prefer to run our own show locally, ourselves. --David Shove Roseville _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
