I went out with a girl who, as does the state legislature in Maryland, despises Wal-Mart: it's causing mom and pop shops to go out of business, it has been documented that its employees make somewhat less per month than Donald Trump, poor people are sacrificed on the roofs at midnight, yadda yadda yadda. You've heard the same lines I have. Of course, she buys all of her hair care products at Wal-Mart, but hey, she saves money that way.
I bring up Maryland because Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun brought it up while interviewing Objectivist philosopher Andrew Bernstein:
What do you think of Maryland's new law requiring Wal-Mart to pay 8 percent of its payroll on worker health care?
It's immoral as hell. In a free society, the government has no moral right to force any individual, any honest individual, to do anything.
More on labor unions, outsourcing, and why capitalism is the moral system as you read the whole thing.
Posted by Craig Ceely at February 12, 2006 07:38 PM