Payne Phalen
Wrote
"However, if you provided them some of the facts Emily and Rene posted recently I think they would have to reconsider their responses. Especially, if they understood the community cost of Walmart's presence. That is the cost to taxpayers, non-profits, emergency health care and their own employees."
So once again I propose that the state put forward a General Fund Reimbursement bill that would place a surcharge on all businesses that rely on the state to provide services to their employees that they refuse to pay for so they can pad their bottom line. Let's take the profit incentive for underpaying and/or underbenefitting employees out of the equation. And let's not limit it to strictly their employees but their effects on other businesses. If someone like Wal-Mart tries to pull a Rubbermaid in Minnesota--telling a company to fold their US plants and open up in China--the state will slap a surcharge on the Wal-Mart type business for state expenditures in retraining the employees who have been outsourced as well as for any welfare they need until they find an equivilant job to the one they had.
Unless, of course, the Taxpayers League believes it is all right for the state to subsidize these corporations instead of taxing them to pay their own freight.
Steven M Nelson
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