Posts Tagged ‘Wal-Mart’Obama economist: Wal-Mart a ‘progressive force,’ not anti-poorFriday, May 3rd, 2013 May 3, 2013 By Chris Reed As Dan Walters notes, unions are once again pushing for onerous new restrictions on Wal-Mart selling groceries in California, and once again Gov. Jerry Brown will have to end up playing the role of Mr. Sanity by vetoing a bill carried by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, ... Calif. Business Community Attacks SelfWednesday, September 7th, 2011SEPT. 7, 2011 Amazon is sponsoring a measure, slated for the June 2012 ballot, which would repeal a recently enacted state law that, for the first time, requires online retailers with no physical presence in California to nonetheless collect state sales taxes. The nation’s largest online ret... Amazon Deal Smacked DownTuesday, September 6th, 2011 SEPT. 6, 2011 Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, is embroiled in a sales-tax mess with the state of California. And it's under attack from “brick and mortar” retailers, including big-box retailer Wal-Mart. Amazon has been working to get out from under a new law requiring sales tax ... Wal-Mart’s Total Tax HypocrisyTuesday, August 30th, 2011John Seiler: The biggest corporate backer of the "Amazon tax" has been Wal-Mart. The tax was imposed as part of last June's California state budget deal. It's supposed to slam Amazon.com for not paying state sales taxes. Instead, it slammed 25,000 small businesses, "affiliates" that used Amazon's... |