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Thank you. It would be like saying Wal-Mart is giving a customer $5 because DVD is $15 there vs. $20 at Best Buy. Yes, if nobody gave tax breaks companies wou

Thank you. It would be like saying Wal-Mart is giving a customer $5 because DVD is $15 there vs. $20 at Best Buy. Yes, if nobody gave tax breaks companies would have to pay more taxes, but that will never happen, Congress likely does not have the power to force states or municipalities to do so either. edited, spelling.

geofft 9y ago
But what is Wal-Mart's cost of buying the DVD? If they get it from their wholesaler at $19.99 and Best Buy is turning the tiniest profit, Wal-Mart selling it for $15 is effectively giving the customer $5. Sure, they can do it if they want to, but that would raise immediate and valid questions about whether the money would be better used in some other way (giving customers $5 without making them buy a DVD), whether this is the sort of anti-competitive behavior that a long-term-productive capitalist society should regulate, and whether there's something shady going on between Wal-Mart and the DVD supplier.