Jonathan A. Schein - President & CEO - Real Estate Media - GlobeSt.com

3/21/06:It appears that state and local politicians around the country are looking into whether or not Wal-Mart should offer its employees health benefits. It should be said that many Wal-Marts are located in areas already saddled with tax burdens that chase businesses away. The idea of legislating how private enterprise conducts its own affairs will probably send many of these corporations away forever. Yes, like many large and successful companies, Wal-Mart has had its share of issues, but it has also been able to grow and employ hundreds of thousands of people across the country. To impose a mandated health plan (read, another tax), will only cause prices to rise. And these rising prices will most seriously affect those that this mandatory health plan was supposed to help. In other words, in the long run, it won't really help these working-class people at all. Maybe some of these legislators should think through this position before posturing around it.

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