Walmart or any other company is under whatever obligation we the people decide should be the cost of doing business in this country. The fact that healthcare is not presently mandated does not mean it should not be or never will be.

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Walmart supermarkets in China are all forced to have unions. See the benefits of dictatorship??

I never understood the evil Wall Mart thing the cerate jobs they keep prices low. No one makes people work their so I don’t understand why their so bad are they prefect no has their ever bean bad people that work their yes. However this hold idea of big evil Wall Mart coming to town and making everyone lives hell is just odd.

An who cares if their trying to help their image their donating money and that’s a good thing

Rather than forcing walmart to provide health insurance, why not eliminate the barriers to employees getting their own insurance. One direct way would be to allow people to deduct from taxes the cost of private insurance.

The story is stil the same here. Walmarts purpose it to increase shareholder value, not to employ people, or pay them a lot of money. A business is supposed to reduce costs and maximize profits.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

That is a idea I would go along with.

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Absolutely. I get so tired of people acting like corporations are "good" or "bad" when in fact they are merely fulfilling their one and only function: increasing shareholder value.

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No they aren't. They are responsible to their customers, their shareholders and, to a degree, their employees. If you are none of these, then your opinion of how they do business means nothing.


But today it isn't, so it doesn't matter if you or anyone else thinks it should be. The free market decides as to what kind of health insurance plan WalMart offers, or if they offer one at all.

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China is a Communist country.

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It's all about the unions. Bottom line. The unions think they are entitled to have everyone in the country unionized and every worker in the country pay them to do absolutely nothing for you. They can't stand Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart has managed to stave off unionization of their employees and they are a huge employer so the unions see unionizing their company as a huge cash cow and they are pissed that they can't get it. So, they have been demonizing them in attempts to pressure them into unionizing and lobbying State governments as well as the Feds to do the same. The fact that people working a cash register or stocking shelves should be in a union is laughable at best, but it's all about the AFL-CIO keeping itself relevant and making money.

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Furthermore, if we the people decide what the cost of business is, then Walmart is doing everything right as sales are contiuously increasing. The consumers have approved of Walmart with their dollars.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

I'm sorry but that's just nonsense. We impose rules for doing business every day. They're called laws.
I'm sorry but that's nonsense too. If you want to do business and become wealthy in this country then you follow the laws. And if universal health care really does become a goal of the people in this country and if mandating employer-supplied health insurance is the best way to accomplish it then walmart will follw that law and supply health coverage. There is no such thing as a "free market" and there never has been.

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Nowhere near as much as the 12 to 20 million (mostly) future democratic voters (illegal immigrants) are costing us.

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Greetings and Felicitations,

Here is a tidbit of information for everyone on this thread. Most of the money given to charity by Walmart is collected from the employees. For example, Children's Miracle Network is a prime target of these charitable contributions. Walmart employees raise money through food sales (bake sales, hot dog dinners, and the like). Walmart will match somewhat but the majority comes from the employees own work and volunteer time.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Im not sure thats correct. The article says that most of their giving was cash.

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Greetings and Felicitations,

The money collected by associates is paid in cash and kept separate from other money. I know how this works because that is where I work.

From the article:

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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