What is wrong with higher prices at WALMART???

[neoteric lefty]

I can remember when Wal-Mart was just another store in the area and you had a real choice as a consumer. Wal-Mart prices weren't high and weren't "slave-labor"-ishly low like the are now. I don't remember the American economy collapsing like Peggy Noonan is insinuating on Scarborough Country.

[Taeger]

1. If we abolish slavery ...

The prices for you linen will go up. You'll have to pay more at the general store for your tarps and tents!!!!!

Please, it's the civil war debate all over again.

Besides, Wal-Mart DOESN'T just pass that savings along to us. Bill Gates may be the richest individual. However the Walton heirs together beat them EASILY. Microsoft is chump change compared to Wal-Mart. They didn't make all that money by passing on the savings to us.

[59millionmorons]

2. Don't forget

Wal mart has driven away many smaller stores, because of there low prices. If they are forced to raise prices and sell American made products it would bring back compitition and more jobs back. I live in a place in which ten years ago we had a Hills, Kmart, Bonton, Hess's, Bee Gees, JM Fields. Then wal Mart moved in and they all left.

[spooky3]

3. AND what no Repug wants to say is that if you DON'T regulate

Wal-Mart, they will eventually drive everyone out of business AND jack up their prices. Then what do you have? No jobs AND high prices.

[mountainvue]

4. There's

a whole laundry list of things about Wal Mart that are wrong IMO.

[mohc]

5. Well

Cost savings from lower wages in other countries always have a negative effect on the economy. Even if companies pass 100% of the savings on to the consumer, which they do not do, it still has a negative impact. If there is a $10 product that is made for $10/hr in the US that can be made for $1/hr somewhere else, the US loses $1 for every product made. While consumers save $9 on each prodcut, workers lose $10 in lost wages. The $1 ends up in the economy of the other country, where they are not going to be able to afford the very products they are making. In reality the corporations are going to be pocketing quite a profit so they can push up their stock prices. And the cycle will continue: ship jobs offshore to lower prices, without quality jobs people can't even afford these lower prices, more jobs shipped offshores to lower prices even more, etc etc etc.

[Cocoa]

6. that was one of the stupidest questions in all the debates

I heard a reporter on NPR's "The World" ask a similar question to Bernie Sanders, who informed that reporter how stupid that thinking is. He embarrassed the reporter.

Now Gloria Borger suggests that higher prices at Wal Mart is a serious political issue for working class people.

Sharpton hit it out of the park, by the way.

[DaisyUCSB]

7. Most consumers aren't concerned about slave-labor elsewhere

I'm in the middle on trade. I'm not one of those liberals who thinks that the US is responsible for every other country in the world, and I think protectionism wouldn't work. But the main reason I boycott Walmart is that they are such big contributors to the right-wing across the board in this country

No Walmart, no Coors beer, no Cigarettes