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It's paywalled so I can't read the article, but America's small towns were bankrupted by Walmart decades ago. This happened simultaneously with massive, continu
by Clubber 5y ago
It's paywalled so I can't read the article, but America's small towns were bankrupted by Walmart decades ago. This happened simultaneously with massive, continuous subsidy cuts under Reagan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/02/19/reagan-calls-for-414-billion-in-spending-cuts-for-fiscal-1982/e78afaa9-3560-485c-b24f-66564141b40a/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/02/19/r...
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0211/apact1.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0211/apact1.html
- auntienomen 5y agoYou should have read the article before commenting. Or at least recognized the risk of raising distracting whatabouts. None of these towns are dying because of Walmart. They're little old towns in rural areas, otherwise healthy enough, but climate change is wrecking their infrastructure and crushing their finances.
- Clubber 5y ago>>It's paywalled so I can't read the article >You should have read the article before commenting. You should read what happened to small towns in the 80s. And maybe read what I actually wrote.