Re: OT: Sam's Bank and the twisted horse opera (WalMart)

Gould 0738 wrote:
> 
> >Look, I don't pretend to know ALL of the answers, but it's been a given
> >that communities benefit when large businesses locate there. Talk to one
> >of your local congressmen or board of supervisors and let them explain
> >exactly why.
> >
> >Dave
> 
> So, how is the free market served when small businesses in a locale are made to
> pay (through taxes) to subsidize a huge competitor?
> 
> I keep hearing the rattlefrom the right that it's all OK because it's "free
> market", but nobody will answer my question about how it can be free market
> when one business is taxed in order to grant tax relief or public cash
> incentives to another.


If you want to get down to it, it's not "free market", as it's the
government interfering in it. But the government routinely interfers in
the free market if they feel that there's a good reason for it. The
problem is that one man's "good idea" is another man's worst
nightmare....

Dave