Old Guy continues to use low rent, no thought, cliche'd responses. There is a ton of data from all over the country that shows that Walmart does indeed use taxpayer funded programs to keep its health care costs down, hence using taxes paid by you and I to subsidize its profit margin. Even their own internal documents support this. Old Guy's response to this is the intellectual equivalent of "Oh yeah......?" He says:Now if the new question is "why should Maryland taxpayers have to subsidize the biggest retail firm in the world?" The answer is they are not. Have you stopped beating your wife?

As to your question with regard to the Walmart Employees, there are any number of websites being run by Walmart employees. I personally have had organizing programs going in stores in which a great number of employees want to organize, but the company continues to use tactics that are, at least, unethical, and many times they are illegal. There have been, and are, many violations of the National Labor Relations Act. But Walmart, reinforced by Bush1 and Bush2 appointees to the NLRB, has managed to skirt the law which has been weakened by right wing Republican legislators to the point of being useless. I can assure you from personal experience that Walmart employees would love to organize if they could do so without being afraid of economic retaliation by the company. This is supposed to be against the law, but Old Guy's heroes just don't enforce the law, and have weakened it to the point that working stiffs feel like no one will stand up for them. But we will.

Mick