Post subject: Re: Report: Wal-Mart hushed up Mexico bribe network
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:52 pm
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Electromatic wrote:
Rebar wrote:
eminent. And eminent domain only applies to the government, whether it be local, state, or federal. Not private companies. And the government can't take land from somebody under eminent domain to put a wal mart on a property.
Walmart wanted to build a store in Alabaster, Alabama, and the local citizens wouldn't sell so they went to the local politicans and got them to take the property under eminent domain (in the name of increasing the local tax base) (or at least that's how I understood what happened anyway)
Did they pay off the local politicians to get them to use eminent domain? That would be the key difference.
Post subject: Re: Report: Wal-Mart hushed up Mexico bribe network
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:17 pm
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Green Habit wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
Rebar wrote:
eminent. And eminent domain only applies to the government, whether it be local, state, or federal. Not private companies. And the government can't take land from somebody under eminent domain to put a wal mart on a property.
Walmart wanted to build a store in Alabaster, Alabama, and the local citizens wouldn't sell so they went to the local politicans and got them to take the property under eminent domain (in the name of increasing the local tax base) (or at least that's how I understood what happened anyway)
Did they pay off the local politicians to get them to use eminent domain? That would be the key difference.
Post subject: Re: Report: Wal-Mart hushed up Mexico bribe network
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:53 pm
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Promising politicians specious future increases in tax revenues seems to do the trick though. No need to hand them an envelope full of cash, just put down some overly optimistic sales forecasts and something about 'job creation'.
Post subject: Re: Report: Wal-Mart hushed up Mexico bribe network
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:56 am
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Rebar wrote:
eminent. And eminent domain only applies to the government, whether it be local, state, or federal. Not private companies. And the government can't take land from somebody under eminent domain to put a wal mart on a property.
In Vegas we call the above scenario "Monday".
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