Only one of the four employers were affected by the bill. The other 3 were already in compliance.

If the 10,000 employee number had been set lower, like it was in other states, it would be more effective in achieving it's purpose of relieving the health care cost burden on the taxpayers. If the purpose of the bill was to relieve the health care cost burden on the taxpayers, it should have number should have been set lower. It was not set lower because they wanted to target Walmart and therefore nicknamed the bill "The Walmart Bill"

However you will note that he Walmart Bill was opposed by an association of retailers and it was "spearheaded by labor unions and Giant Food. Giant food is in trouble because the Union has them paying truck drivers $80,000 per year. They cannot compete with Walmart on food prices so they don't want any competition from Walmart.

If Walmart is so shitty because they pay just under 8% of payroll into health benefits and Giant is so great because they pay 20% of their payroll in health benefits, why don't the Walmart workers beat feet to Giant?

The retailers fighting the bill include competitors of Walmart who realize that competition is a good thing, not a bad thing.

To answer your absurd questions which contain assertions which may or may not be true and therefore complex, even though you avoid the Asplundh question like the plague by using the excuse that it in in a different state. This thread is about how the Democratic party demonizes Walmart for political purposes and is not limited to Maryland. Discussing West Virginia is no more of a distraction than discussing Maryland.

Yes I care about low end Walmart workers. I shop there and support them whenever I can. I have even asked them if they have complaints about Walmart and they have never told me of any.

Yes I care about taxpayers. I am a Maryland taxpayer myself. When I buy something at Walmart I recoup some if not all the extra taxes I pay for their health care costs.

A real estate agent told me something interesting today. In Maryland, the cheapest gas prices are at a Sheetz station and a Wawa station in sight of each other. In a neighboring county, an oil company that supplies gas to a lot of stations and owns a lot of stations had enough political influence to get a bill passed in the county known as the Sheetz Bill. It prevents gas stations from being so close to each other so as to cause too much competition on the price of gas.

This is another case of a company causing legislation that benefits the company, not the consumer.