From today's editorial, which is a shocking display of, well, getting it:
That's the Walmart break, but what about Lowe's, Home Depot, Barnes and Noble, Old Navy, Petco and all the rest??But in October the resident voters of the city changed that so in 2007 Wal-Mart will pay the city of Fairbanks just over $12,200, an annual savings to the corporation of about $152,300. That’s a great savings by most people’s standards, but in the scheme of things this is chicken feed for the Arkansas-based retail giant.
And now with a new employee head tax — one of the options proffered by the author of Ballot Measure No. 3 and now approved by the City Council — the employees who work for Wal-Mart will have to help make up the difference by contributing $20 of their own paychecks each month to the city instead.
*This may actually be Incident #2, I think I agreed with something that Craig Medred of the Anchorage Daily Snooze wrote several years ago.
2 comments:
Yep, shunt that tax on the poorest employees (well, with the exception of those making less than $10/hour). Talk about stupid!
Hey $10 an hour, if you are the primary wage earner in a house, or trying to support kids, isn't all that much either in a place like this.
Not just stupid, but bad policy if you are concerned about families and community.
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