Walmart disproportionately benefits.

Sorry, I was too busy partaking in agorist economics (real-time) to follow all your bull and comment on it.  Thankfully, em3rgentOrder and others have more of a sense of self-punishment and are willing to entertain AyeYo's bull

Show me the numbers or GTFO.  You keep making all these claims about how Walmart is reaping massive benefits from publicly funded roads and it's giving them an advantage, SHOW ME THE NUMBERS.


Also, still wondering how advanced devices like a GPU or such can be manufactured without a massive facility.

Mom & pop store buys a shipment of goods. It comes in what is essentially a moving van, dropped off by one guy.

Walmart buys a shipment of goods, it comes in a Semi-truck (Which they own a fleet of), and is unloaded by a team of associates paid to do nothing but.

It's called economy of scale. Walmart has a higher cost per shipment, but a disproportional amount of profit, because they average that cost over a much larger amount of goods. Yet, they pay almost exactly the same amount of taxes, proportional to the cost of shipment. The price of the roads being factored into the gas prices, probably much less (Both trucks run on a diesel engine, but the semi uses less fuel, as a percentage of the profit from the shipment, than does the smaller truck).

www.google.com

Have fun.

One word.  Accountability.

Since you have no idea what you're talking about, I'll post some numbers for you.

http://cdn.walmartstores.com/sites/AnnualReport/2010/PDF/01_WMT%202010_Financials.pdf

Walmart alloted $7.436 BILLION for taxes in 2010 (page 17).

There, I did half your work for you.  Now it's your turn to browse some mom and pop finanical statements and prove your assertion that Walmart pays "almost exactly the same amount of taxes".  Good luck.

Nope.  Nice try though.

His exact words were: "they pay almost exactly the same amount of taxes, proportional to the cost of shipment"

I got their tax information for him.  Now he can find the rest of the info he needs and do the calculations to prove his claim, otherwise he's just pulling statements out of his ass.

You put in your own work around here.  You want to be taken seriously and not just laughed at as the angry little kid in the room, then provide proof for your claims.  Otherwise I'll just start laughing at everything you say.


Still waiting to hear how high tech and complex products can be made without massive facilities.

Assuming that the numbers in that chart on page 30 (not 17, learn to read page numbers) Are in fact in the billions, which is a reasonable assumption, though in my perusal of the document I did not find specific information saying so, Walmart paid 304.657 billion as 'Cost of sales' (in other words, incoming goods.) Actual numbers are moot, however, since we're dealing with percentages here. Expressed as a percentage of cost of incoming goods, Walmart paid 2.44% in taxes. If you include operating costs (since walmart doesn't split off numbers for their shipping arm in this document, we'll have to) That adds another 79 billion, bringing the total percentage down to 1.9% But even that's not exactly accurate, since for it to be accurate, the tax has to be considered a part of that operating expense, so we have to add that in, bringing the percentage down to 1.8%

But ALL of this is irrelevant, since the specific taxes I was speaking about was the GAS tax which is what actually goes to fund the roads, and the number you quoted above was the INCOME tax.

I don't need to do any math at all to show that carrying 16 pallets in a semi is more fuel-efficient than carrying 1 pallet's worth of individual items in a small diesel truck. Proportional to the cost of one shipment, Walmart pays less in GAS TAX per shipment than does the Mom & Pop. In a free market system, Mom & Pops who sell locally produced items would handily be able to compete with the 'big box' stores which ship their goods in from all over, since the actual cost of shipping that banana in from Peru would be reflected in the price, and not externalized to the taxpayers via trade subsidies, gas taxes, and other factors.