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25,000 apply for 325 Walmart jobs... Project killed by Chicago City Council
The Home of Uncommon Sense ^ | 01/26/2006 | Craig DeLuz

Posted on 01/26/2006 8:52:24 AM PST by Craig DeLuz



18 moths after the Chicago City Council successfully kept them from opening a store within the city, Walmart will be opening a brand new 141,000 square foot store one block outside the city limits.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: chicago; walmart

1 posted on 01/26/2006 8:52:26 AM PST by Craig DeLuz
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To: Craig DeLuz

Oh nooooooo. "18 moths!"


2 posted on 01/26/2006 8:53:27 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Craig DeLuz
the Chicago City Council successfully kept them from opening a store within the city, Walmart will be opening a brand new 141,000 square foot store one block outside the city limits

How long before the Chicago City Council annexes the property so they can benefit from the sales taxes and property taxes?

3 posted on 01/26/2006 8:55:45 AM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: Craig DeLuz

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565376/posts


4 posted on 01/26/2006 8:55:53 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature - Jim Beam)
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To: sarasota

DOH!!!!


5 posted on 01/26/2006 9:00:17 AM PST by Craig DeLuz (Common Sense is not that Common)
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To: SittinYonder

One block outside city limits ... hmmmm, how about taking a lesson-learned and build 'em one block outside the Maryland state line. The neighboring states will enjoy that sales tax bump. Hehehehe. Watch for Virginia and Pennsylvania towns to offer tax incentives. Then Maryland will try to nail its citizens for a use tax as they come back over the border. That is one way to turn a state red.


6 posted on 01/26/2006 9:05:05 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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To: NonValueAdded
Then Maryland will try to nail its citizens for a use tax as they come back over the border.

If Maryland officials think they can get away with it, they will. Both Maryland and Virginia alcohol control officers have monitored liquor stores in the District of Columbia, to catch their citizens buying the less expensive liquor sold there.

There is this little part of the U.S. Constitution that gives the Federal government, and not the states, the authority to regulate interstate commerce. However, Maryland does not appear to bother with such legalities.

7 posted on 01/26/2006 9:11:57 AM PST by Wallace T.
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"Maryland does not appear to bother with such legalities."

Or most liberals for that matter......

8 posted on 01/26/2006 9:51:11 AM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Wallace T.

Maryland. Isn't that where congressmen keep their mistresses? lol


9 posted on 01/26/2006 10:43:00 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: NonValueAdded
Where are the Walmart bashers now? Did they drag all these people to the store to apply for a "low paying, no benefits job selling Chinese goods?"

Here's the link to the Suntimes story.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-walmart26.html
10 posted on 01/26/2006 2:40:52 PM PST by bfree (PC is BS)
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