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Permalink Reply by ramon t on January 13, 2012 at 11:50am

You try to prove a point about fuzzy math yet assume that all 500 people working their are married and have two children?  

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on January 13, 2012 at 12:07pm

well you would know better than us since your brother has worked there for 10 years...please ask him, do most of his co-workers have families?  does your brother?  just curious...

again, if Walmart can afford to pay $735,000 in income tax they can certainly afford to pay property taxes as well...I don't think they are hurting financially.

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Permalink Reply by ramon t on January 13, 2012 at 2:21pm

I know 6 people that he works with.  4 do not have families.  1 is divorced with 1 child and the other is married with no kids.  My brother does not have a family.  Though he does care for my father who is 73 but still works part time.

"again, if Walmart can afford to pay $735,000 in income tax they can certainly afford to pay property taxes as well.."

Of course they can.  Though cities, towns, counties, states compete for large companies to move and grow businesses in their areas.  If Los Lunas didn't offer the breaks they did Wal-Mart probably would have located somewhere else.  Maybe Albuquerque or TorC or Show Low, Arizona.

There has been lots of areas around the state to give property tax breaks and other various incentives to different types of companies such as Intel.  The new Lowe's call center received a $150k economic grant from County as well as a break in gross receipts taxes.  I'm sure you'll be posting your disdain for those companies and tax breaks shortly, right?

As soon as I post this I will be searching for your past post with regards to Movie business tax breaks/rebates and loans also.

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on January 13, 2012 at 3:56pm

yes, I dislike Lowe's for that and for other reasons

Walmart probably would have located elsewhere if they weren't given tax breaks in Los Lunas?  really?  my goodness HOW do you know that?

did you find any posts from me re: the film industry? 

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Permalink Reply by ramon t on January 13, 2012 at 6:34pm

I can't find any of your posts showing your displeasure for any tax breaks besides this one. Hhhhmmmm.

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Permalink Reply by Lebowski on January 13, 2012 at 12:30pm

Well mom, unless the government is doing the "giving" I guess your presumption is that people don't. When the fact is, they always have. Who are you to make "caring" compulsory anyway? Not only compulsory, but selective and even unfair. Well I know who you are to do that...a socialist.

The Government, specifically our Federal Government, has no place in redistributing wealth or "caring". It isn't their job to do this. It isn't their job to pick winners and losers in the market either. In fact, about 60% of what they do with my money isn't their job and isn't even constitutional...but guess what? I go to jail if I don't give them the money to do it. Sounds like a good deal to me, not. By the way, all this caring you want the government to do...it's riddled with corruption and fraud...while creating a permanent and multi-generational class of dependency. I guess the good news is, if you're a Democrat, at least they won't bite the hand that feeds them (no pun intended), in fact, they'll probably lick it...wait, that almost sounds like keeping people down could be a good thing if you're a Democrat politician, interesting.

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on January 13, 2012 at 4:15pm

leb. please don't generalize people you don't even know into political parties.

no, it isn't Gov. job to redistribute wealth, I never said it was.

I think you need a hug Lebowski, oops but that would mean somebody cares about your welfare...and we can't have that.

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Permalink Reply by Lebowski on January 13, 2012 at 4:22pm

That was clearly the context of our conversation, government assistance...tax dollars...more tax dollars being better for the community than jobs. Again, I care about peoples welfare and I'm quite active in my charitable work. What does that have to do with not wanting the government to be in the business of charity? How does disliking social programs administered by the government = not caring about people's welfare? That's where the problem is.

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on January 13, 2012 at 4:48pm

well I guess if you don't like the government administering social programs you could always move to another country...

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Permalink Reply by Phil_0 on January 13, 2012 at 5:38pm

don't feed the troll...Lebowski has no interest in DCF other than starting a flame war in virtually every thread with even vaguely political content...

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Permalink Reply by Lebowski on January 13, 2012 at 4:56pm

No thanks, I'll just fight till I die to keep you folks from turning this on into Europe. We'll get it fixed...it's not sustainable, so one way or another.

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Permalink Reply by abqmom on January 13, 2012 at 5:10pm

ok  best wishes with your fight then!

{{{Lebowski}}}

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