Mick Arran, “Corpo’s Get States to Subsidize Low Wages: We’ve said I dunno how many times that Wal-mart is the leader in scamming taxpayer money, getting city, county, and state govts to pay for things they ought to be paying for themselves. We’ve pointed out the way Wal-mart goes after tax abatements; gets cities to pay their water, sewage, and electricity bills; has counties or states pay to build the roads leading into and out of WM Superstore parking lots, and so on. We’ve detailed how their refusal to a) provide reasonable health insurance to their employees, or b) pay them enough to buy reasonable health insurance for themselves. In fact, so many Wal-mart employees are paid so little that it’s not uncommon for them to have to go on Welfare or apply for food stamps. Well, WM has successfully taught these scams to the rest of the US corporatocracy.