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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (45802)	6/13/2013 9:40:40 AM
From: sm1th	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 Thehammer TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

The Committee estimates that a single 300-person Wal-Mart Supercenter store in Wisconsin (there are 75 in the state) costs taxpayers between $904,542 and $1,744,590 per year. What would the cost to the state be if those 300 were unemployed?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (45802)	6/17/2013 7:15:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

Wal-mart "cost" the government a negative amount by employing them. Likely at least some of them would have been unemployed (with greater cost to the government), but lets imagine a fantasy scenario where that isn't the case. Every one of them would have made more if they didn't work for Wal-mart. Even in that very unlikely scenario Walmart still didn't cost the government anything by employing people. Walmart didn't hire people with guns to force the government to pay benefits, the government choice to pay benefits.