Robin Hood, reversed!

Are your tax dollars being funneled into WalMart's coffers through numerous subsidies? So claims a 2004 study, "Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart uses taxpayer money to finance its never-ending growth", at the Good Jobs First website. The subsidies granted to Wal-Mart take many different forms, but the following are the most common:

• Free or reduced-price land.
• Infrastructure assistance.
• Tax increment financing.
• Property tax breaks.
• State corporate income tax credits.
• Sales tax rebates.
• Enterprise zone (and other zone) status.
• Job training and worker recruitment funds.
• Tax-exempt bond financing.
• General grants.

This is a very interesting forced redistribution of wealth by government.