Paul Jacob serves as the Senior Fellow of Americans for Limited Government. His syndicated radio commentary, Common Sense, is aired daily by more than 100 stations in 48 states. I like what he has to say about Wal-Mart, including the following:
Some folks don't like Wal-Mart. Okay. Fine. It's a free country. No one should be forced at gunpoint to shop at Wal-Mart. Or to work there.
And no one is. That's what a free market is all about: the freedom to trade goods and services, to trade one's time and labor as an employee, one's dollars as a customer. Or not to.
Wal-Mart has found enormous success in the marketplace only because many people have voluntarily chosen to shop and work there...
Still, we witness a sustained and hysterical assault against the company...
As for employee pay and benefits, if Wal-Mart is so terrible, why didn't these employees choose to take the better jobs offered elsewhere?...
The most serious charge — in fact, the only serious charge — made against Wal-Mart is that the company has received subsidies and favors from government...
But this is something left and right and center should all be able to agree upon: such subsidies corrupt the marketplace as well as politics. They should be ended not just for Wal-Mart but for all businesses everywhere at all times...
Is there something more to do, after establishing rules of fair play? Sure. To those who talk trash against Wal-Mart: Boycott the company. Teach Wal-Mart a lesson. That's your right.
And it'll leave a little more room for the rest of us to get our shopping carts through those crowded and narrow aisles.
Townhall.com :: Columns :: The freedom to hate Wal-Mart by Paul Jacob
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