{"id":2854,"date":"2008-03-25T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/25\/13\/22\/walmarts-corporate-socialism\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T21:22:18","slug":"walmarts-corporate-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/03\/25\/13\/22\/walmarts-corporate-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s Corporate Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2008\/03\/small-retailers-being-forced-out-by-government-subsidies-to-big-chains\/\">Sam &#8220;Walmart&#8221; Walton practiced corporate socialism. As much as he could, he put the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s money to work for his benefit. Free land, long-term leases at below-market rates, pocketing sales taxes, even getting workers trained at government expense were among the ways Wal-Mart took every dollar of welfare it could get &#8230; Walton had a particular fondness for government-sponsored industrial revenue bonds, &#8230; which cost him less in interest charges than the corporate bonds the market economy uses to raise money.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam &#8220;Walmart&#8221; Walton practiced corporate socialism. As much as he could, he put the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s money to work for his benefit. Free land, long-term leases at below-market rates, pocketing sales taxes, even getting workers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,603,74,601,602,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corporate-welfare","category-economics","category-laissez-faire","category-sam-walton","category-walmart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}