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					Originally Posted by Beestie
					
				 
				I've already added Wal-Mart to the ever-growing list of institutions (and people, I'm proud to say) that, according to marichiko, lie and cheat.  And, while we are on the subject of the list, as a consequence of your profound insights into our foreign policy as documented in another thread, I've sent a memo to Condi Rice that we need to dust off "Cold War" and "Domino Theory" and put them back into the forefront of our foreign policy doctrine where they belong. 
			
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 Glad to see you're paying  attention.  What thread, BTW?
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					Originally Posted by Beestie
					
				 
				But, getting back to the topic at hand, I have three questions:   
 
1. Are you saying that California would be better of by $86M if Wal-Mart closed its doors tomorrow?  The only way I can make sense of that assertion is to assume that everyone who works at Wal-Mart turned down a higher paying job to work there... 
 
Alternatively, you can link the study and I'll answer my own questions. 
			
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 No, I am not making that leap of logic.  I merely quoted what the study says tax payers must pay for Walmart workers.  The figure is on page 10 here:
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/lowwage/walmart.pdf