Again, I’m not a fan of Wal-Mart, and I have no problem with questioning the social effects of that corporation’s aggressive pursuit of capitalism.
Despite that, I’ve previously called shennanigains on some of the junk science trying to put a dollar value on the harm caused by Wal-Mart.
I’m not the only one to do so, it seems.
This is a genuinely perverse way of looking at the situation. Here’s what’s happening. You have some people. Once upon a time, they didn’t work for Wal-Mart. Then they decided to take jobs at Wal-Mart. Presumably, their previous jobs were worse, or not jobs at all. Wal-Mart jobs don’t pay very much money, which makes many of the people who work at Wal-Mart poor. The government, at the behest of decades of liberal agitation, runs programs that provide services or money to poor people. And now liberals are supposed to complain that this amounts to Wal-Mart getting subsidies?